Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics

Lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture.

• Socialization

• Enculturation

• Self-concept

• Identity Formation

Process by which people learn the requirements of their surrounding culture and acquire the values and behaviors appropriate in that culture.

• Socialization

• Enculturation

• Cultural Identity

• Moral

Development of an individual's distinct personality.

• Identity Formation

• Ethnic Identity

• Cultural Identity

• Religious Identity

The sum of a being's knowledge and understanding of his/herself.

• Self-concept

• Self-consciousness

• Self-awareness

Rules that guide the behavior of members of society or group.

• Norms

• Folkways

• Mores

• Normative

Norms that state what should not be done.

• Proscriptive

• Prescriptive

Refers to all the statuses a person holds at a given time.

Refers to the behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status.