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| shared ideas held collectively by people within a given culture |
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| subculture created as a reaction against the values of the dominant culture |
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| cultural resources that are socially designated as being worth and that give advantages to groups possessing such capital |
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| the transmission of cultural elements from one society or culture group to another |
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| the pervasive and excessive influence of one culture througout society |
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| the idea that something can be understood and judged only in relationship to the cultural context in which it appears |
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| the complex system of meaning and behavior that defines the way of life for a given group or society |
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| the delay in cultural adjustments to changing social conditions |
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| the feeling or disorientation that can come when one encoutners a new or rapidly changed cultural situation |
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| the culture of the most powerful group in society |
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| the belief that one's in-group is superior to all out-groups |
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| the technique for studying human interaction by deliberately disrupting social norms and observing how individuals attempt to restore normalcy |
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| the general standards of behavior adhered to by a group |
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| a set of symbols and rules that when put together in a meaninful way proveides a complex communication system |
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| the written sense of guidelines that define what is right and wrong in society |
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| channels of communication that are available to very wide segments of the population |
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| strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior |
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| the norms, laws, customs, ideas and beliefs of a group of people |
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| the objects created in a given society |
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| the specific cultural expectations for how to act in a given situation |
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| the beliefs, practices and objects that are apart of everyday traditions |
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| the idea that the mass media refelct the values of the general population |
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| a theory that language deteremines other aspects of culture since language provides the categories through which social reality is defined and received |
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| mechanisms of social control that enforce norms |
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| the culture of groups whose values and norms of behavior are somewhat different from thsoe of the dominant culture |
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| things or behavior to which people give meaning |
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| those behaviors that bring the most serious sanctions |
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| the abstract standards in a society or group that define ideal principles |
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| the diffusion of a single culture throughout the world |
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