Chapter 2 Vocabulary

Group that shares values, norms, and behaviors that are not shared by the entire population

• counterculture

• subculture

• society

• culture

shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations

• values

• society

• culture

• norms

norm that describes socially acceptable behavior but does not have great moral significance

• norm

• mores

• laws

• folkway

process of spreading cultural traits from one society to another

• cultural relativism

• cultural lag

• cultural diffusion

• cultural variation

group of interdependent people organized to share a common culture and feeling of unity

• culture

• society

• norm

• folkways

norm that has moral significance attached to it

• more

• folkway

• law

• value

written rules of conduct that are enacted and enforced by the government

• laws

• mores

• subcultures

• countercultures

process by which cultures become more and more alike

• cultural diffusion

• cultural lag

• cultural leveling

• cultural relativism

an aspect of culture that changes less rapidly than other aspects of the same culture

• cultural lag

• cultural leveling

• cultural relativism

• cultural universal

shared belief about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable

• norm

• language

• value

• society