Understanding Sociology Review

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A group of people who live in a defined geographic area, interacting with one another, sharing a common culture

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Society

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Shared practices, values, and beliefs. Everything produced including the social rules

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Culture

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Pattern of cultural experiences and attitudes that exist in mainstream society

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Popular Culture

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Smaller cultural group within a larger culture; part of the larger culture but also share a specific identity within a smaller group

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Subculture

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Rejects some of the larger culture’s norms and values

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Counterculture

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Define how to behave in accordance with what a society has defined as good, right, and important. Most members of the society adhere to them.

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Norms

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Embody the moral views and principles of a group. The strongest mores are legally protected with laws.

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Mores

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Without any moral underpinnings

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Folkways

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Cultural standard for discerning what is good and just in society. Put values into action through rewards, sanctions and punishments

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Values

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Symbols are gestures, signs, objects, signals, and words, help people understand their world

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