Sociology (Final)

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The process by which newcomers or members of a subculture give up their distinctive cultural patterns and take on those of the dominant culture of the society in which they live.

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assimilation

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A group whose norms, attitudes, values, and lifestyle directly challenge or seek to change those of the dominant or mainstream culture.

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counterculture

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The learned norms, values, knowledge, artifacts, language and symbols that are constantly communicated among people who share a common way of life.

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culture

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Norms that are everyday habits and conventions.

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folkways

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The body of facts and beliefs people accumulate over time.

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knowledge

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A system of verbal (and usually also written) symbols with rules about how those symbols can be strung together to convey more complex meanings.

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language

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Norms that are enacted as formal rules by a political body and enforced by the power of the state.

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laws

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All the physical objects, or artifacts, that people make and attach meaning to

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material culture

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Human creations, such as values, norms, knowledge, systems of government, language, and so on, that are not embodied in physical objects.

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nonmaterial culture

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A set of distinctive norms, values, knowledge, artifacts, language, and symbols that a particular group in society uses to distinguish itself from the dominant culture

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subculture