Cultural Norms

The process by which newcomers or members of a subculture give up their distinctive cultural patterns and take on those of the dominant culture of the society in which they live.

• assimilation

• ethnocentrism

• cultural gatekeepers

• counterculture

The idea that any element of culture is understandable only in relation to the rest of its cultural context and to a particular time, place, and set of circumstances.

• cultural relativism

• culture

• ethnocentrism

• laws

The learned norms, values, knowledge, artifacts, language and symbols that are constantly communicated among people who share a common way of life.

• culture

• dominant culture

• folkways

• norms

The tendency to view one’s own cultural patterns as good and right to judge other culture patterns by those standards.

• ethnocentrism

• folkways

• culture

• cultural relativism

Norms that are everyday habits and conventions.

• folkways

• mores

• laws

• norms

All the physical objects, or artifacts, that people make and attach meaning to

• material culture

• nonmaterial culture

• mores

• social markers

Norms that people consider vital to their well-being and to their most cherished values.

• mores

• laws

• values

• symbols

Specific guidelines for action that say how people should behave in particular situations

• norms

• mores

• folkways

• subculture

A set of distinctive norms, values, knowledge, artifacts, language, and symbols that a particular group in society uses to distinguish itself from the dominant culture

• subculture

• symbol

• counterculture

• dominant culture

Cultural pattern, traits, elements that exists in every society

• Cultural Universal
• Culture Lag
• Cultural Relativity
• Culture Shock