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Cultural transmission |
the process by which one generation passes culture down to the next generation |
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Values |
culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living |
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Norms |
rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members |
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Mores |
norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance |
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Folkways |
norms for routine or casual interaction |
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Subculture |
cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society’s population |
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Counterculture |
cultural patterns that strongly opposed those widely accepted within a society |
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ethnocentrism |
the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture |
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cultural relativism |
the practice of judging a culture by the standards of its own culture |
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Beliefs |
specific statements that people hold to be true |
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structural-functional approach |
a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote soldarity and stability |
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social-conflict approach |
a framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change |
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symbolic-interaction approach |
a framework for building theory that sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individuals |
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manifest function |
the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern |
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latent functions |
the unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern |
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empirical evidence |
information we can verify with our senses |
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reliability |
consistency in measurement |
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validity |
actually measuring exactly what you intend to measure |
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cause and effect |
a relationship in which change in one variable (the independent variable) causes change in another variable (the depedent variable) |
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stereotype |
an exaggerated description applied to every person in some category |