Chapter 03
Terms
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- Achieved Status
- Status you earned by your own efforts.
- Ascribed Status
- Status you were born into.
- Taboos
- The unthinkable crime.
- Counterculture
- Opposed to many traditional conventions.
- Ethnocentrism
- A feeling of superiority to all others.
- Folkways
- Common ways of acting, feeling, and believing common to a given culture - mild sanctions.
- Mores
- Common ways of acting, feeling, and believing common to a give culture - severe sanctions.
- Self-fulfilling prophecies
- You tend to adopt character that your significant others see.
- Subculture
- A group which subscribes to the superordinate society but retains many elements of their subordinate culture.
- Symbols
- An object (or idea) that stands for something else.
- Culture
- Behavioral patterns transmitted from one generation to the next.
- Instincts
- A biologically determined behavior.