Sociology: Culture

tenets or convictions that people hold to be true

• Theory

• Culture

• Beliefs

groups that reject and oppose society’s widely accepted cultural patterns

• Society

• countercultures

• Theory

patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies

• diffusion

• dysfunction

• cultural universals

shared beliefs, values, and practices

• theory

• culture

• discovery

the gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture’s acceptance of it

• inventions

• diffusion

• culture lag

the spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another

• diffusion

• discovery

• folkways

things and ideas found from what already exists

• diffusion

• culture

• discoveries

the evaluation and judgment of another culture based on one’s own cultural norms

• formal norms

• ethnocentrism

• cultural lag

direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture

• theory

• culture

• folkways

formal norms are

• established, written rules

• normal to have

• dysfunctional