Cultural Diversity and Conformity---Chapter 2

Commitment to the full development of one's personality, talents, and potential

• Cultural Relativism

• Ethnocentrism

• Narcissism

• Self-Fulfillment

A group with its own unique values, norms, and behaviors that exist within a larger culture.

• Counterculture

• Subculture

• Mores

• Multi-Culturalism

Norms that have great moral significance.

• Values

• Folk Lore

• Folkways

• Mores

Group that rejects the norms, values, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns.

• Subculture

• Counterculture

• Mores

• Folkways

Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to behave in certain situations

• Culture

• Mores

• Norms

• Values

The shared products that a group of people develops and passes on to its children.

• Culture

• Nonmaterial Culture

• Material Culture

• Values

Features common to all cultures

• Cultural Relativism

• Norms

• Cultural Universals

• Values

Viewing one's culture as superior to other cultures.

• Cultural Relativism

• Ethnocentrism

• Narcissism

• Folkways

Norms that do not have great moral significance attached to them.

• Laws

• Values

• Mores

• Folkways

Belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards.

• Cultural Relativism

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural Universals

• Values