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Beliefs
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Shared ideas held collectively by people within a culture about what is true. Helps to bind people together.
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Counterculture
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Subculture that is against the dominant culture purposefully. They reject it.
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Cultural Capital
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Cultural resources that give advantages to groups.
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Cultural Diffusion
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Transmission of cultural elements from one society to another.
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Cultural Hegemony
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The persuasive and excessive influence of one culture throughout society.
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Cultural Relativism
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Something cultural can only be judged if you take in the social context that it happened.
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Culture
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The complex behavior and patterns that defines a way or life for a certain group.
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Culture Lag
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When one aspect of culture is slow to change compared to others, it lags behind.
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Culture Shock
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When culture is changed rapidly, or someone is thrown into another culture.
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Dominant Culture
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Most powerful culture in society, not necessarily the most abundant.
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Ethnocentrism
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Habit of seeing things only from your point of view. No empathy.
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Ethnomethodology
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You can find the normal sociological order, by disrupting it.
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Folkways
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The ways folks act. The general behavior of a group. Simple things such as wearing clothes.
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Global Culture
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The diffusion of a single culture throughout the whole world.
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Material Culture
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Tangible objects created in a society
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