SSU3A2
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Terms
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- Existentialism
- Of or pertaining to issues of individual existence and experience;
- Subculture
- A culture within a culture
- Counterculture
- rejection of traditional values and culture
- Relativism
- This ism rejects absolute truth
- Material Culture
- such things as jewelry, art, buildings, weapons, machines, and even eating utensils, hairstyles and clothing
- Laws
- rules of society that are enforced by government
- Assimilation
- the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
- Sociological Imagination
- the ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal life
- Nonmaterial Culture
- the beliefs practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people
- Cultural Relativism
- not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms
- Mores
- the moral attitudes and fixed customs of a group of people
- Society
- a community of people who share a common culture
- Culture
- all the knowledge and values shared by a society
- Values
- Things that are important to you.
- Folkways
- norms that are not strictly enforced
- Ethnocentrism
- belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
- Norms
- rules defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior