Sociology Ch. 2

All the shared products of human groups.

• Culture Traits

• Culture

• Cultural Lag

• Culture Complexes

Spreading cultural traits from one society to another.

• Culture

• Culture traits

• Cultural diffusion

• Cultural relativism

Knowledge and tools people use for practical purposes.

• Mores

• Folkways

• Values

• Technology

Group with its own unique values, norms, and behaviors that exists within a larger culture.

• Subculture

• Counterculture

• Cultureclub

• Ethnocentrism

An individual tool, act, or behavior that relates to a particular situation or need.

• Cultural Universals

• Culture Traits

• Cultural Relativism

• Culture Patterns

Norms that have great moral significance attached to them.

• Mores

• Folkways

• Laws

• Norms

The time between changes, when ideas and beliefs are adapting to new conditions.

• Culture

• Culture leveling

• Culture lag

• Material Culture

Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them.

• Values

• Laws

• Folkways

• Mores

Abstract human creations form this for a group.

• Material Culture

• Nonmaterial Culture

The belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying those standards of another culture.

• Cultural Complexes

• Cultural Leveling

• Cultural Universals

• Cultural Relativism