Sociology Chapter 3: Culture

Process by which western nations establish their rule in parts of the world away from home territories

• counterculture

• colonialism

• India

• multiculturalism

Values and norms distant from those of the majority, group within a wider society

• popular culture

• counterculture

• non-materiel culture

• subculture

Norms for routine or casual interaction- draw a line between right and wrong

• Shame

• Mores

• Folkways

• Guilt

Ideas created by members of a society

• Material Culture

• Non-Material Culture

Physical things created by members of a society

• Material Culture

• Non- Material Culture

process by which different cultures are absorbed into mainstream cultures

• norms

• assimilation

• high culture

• culture shock

specific thoughts or ideas that people hold to be the truth

• culture

• mores

• beliefs

• norms

Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within society

• counterculture

• subculture

• multiculturalism

• assimilation

values, norms, and material culture characteristics of a given group

• beliefs

• culture

• society

• values

disorientation when immersed into a new culture because they have lost familiar cultural reference points

• cultural relativism

• ethnocentrism

• culture shock

• subculture