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| the information, attitudes, ideas, beliefs, conceptions, rules, values, perceptions, and other mental phenomena that affect people's ways of thinking |
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| what most people do most of the time when they are in similar situations |
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| the sociallys transmitted knowledge and behavioral patterns shared by some group of people |
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| learning by immitating or communicating with other individuals who have already learned something |
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| trying out a behavior to see whether it will work, if it is not rewarding, another behavior is tried |
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| the transmission of culture from one generation to the next by means of social learning |
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| the interconnections between the various elements that make up an entire culture |
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| describes and analyzes interactions and relationships in the context of a group |
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| people recognize themselves and their cultural tradition as distinctive from other people and other cultural traditions |
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| a territorially distinct population whose members speak the same language and share a feeling of common identity relative to other societies |
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| a shared ideal about how people ought to act in certain situations, or about how particular people should act toward particular other people |
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| people's beliefs about the goals or way of life that is desirable for themselves and their society |
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| Collective Understandings |
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| our understanding of what behavior means allows us to interact with one another without the constant need to explain what we are doing |
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| a thing or behavior that stands for something else or that carries a meaning not inherent in its physical properties |
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| Classifications of Reality |
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| the human and natural environments are divided up according to shared, unconscious principles |
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| the way people perceive and interpret reality and events, including their images of themselves and how they related to the world around them |
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| the theory that cultural differences have a biological basis, meaning that groups of people differ in how they thing, feel, and act because they differ in their innate biological makeup |
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| elements that exist in all known human societies |
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