Group of people who live in a defined area and share a common culture

Imposed by persons given special authority

Rewards or punishments that can be applied by most members of a group

Rules that define behavior

Norms that have moral significance

Norms that lack moral significance

Ideas about the nature of reality

Subculture deliberately opposed to certain central beliefs of the dominant culture

Groups apart of dominant culture but differs in some important respects

Guidelines that group members claim to accept

Actual behavior of members of a group

General cultural traits that exist in all cultures

Ways in which a culture expresses universal traits