SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROP

Question 1

language, customs, belies, rules, arts, knowledge, and collective identities and memories developed by members of all social groups that make their social environments meaningful

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Culture

Question 2

Institutional patterns of normative culture

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Structure

Question 3

The features of a social entity (a society or group within society) that persist overtime, are interrelated, and influence both the functioning of the entity as whole and the activities of its individual members.

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Structure

Question 4

Stable patters of behavior that define, govern, and constrain action.

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Institutions

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Rule or standard of behavior shared by members of a social group.

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Social Norms

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Norms may be internalized, or they may be enforced by positive or negative sanctions.

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Social Norms

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Arbitrary rules governing the countless behaviors that individuals engage in everyday without necessarily thinking about said acts deliberatively.

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Conventions

Question 8

Set of rules that has strong cultural significance and enforcement which expresses the group sense of what is fitting, right, and conducive

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Mores

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Considered indispensable, and violations incur social punishment and peer disapproval.

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Mores

Question 10

Uniformities in the behavior of group which develop relatively spontaneously and even unconsciously in adapting to common life conditions and which become established through repetition and general occurrence.

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Folkways

Question 11

Formal mean of social control.

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Laws

Question 12

Generally recorded, codified, and enforced by a governing authority or body for the protection of life, property and iberty

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Laws

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Actions or behaviors that violate informal social norms or formally-enacted rules

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Deviance

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The violation of legal codes. Results in criminal action initiated by the state

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Formal Deviance

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The violation of unwritten, social rules of behavior, and results in social sanction, or stigma.

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Informal Deviance

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Lesser degrees of social violation results in preference rather than stigmatization

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Informal Deviance

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Centers upon objects, properties, and the materials that they are made of, and the ways in which these material facets are central to an understanding of culture and social relations.

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Material Culture

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Ponderable objects created by humans

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Material Culture

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A system of conventional spoken, manual, or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves.

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Language

Question 20

Functions of language

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communication
expression of identity
play
imaginative expression
emotional release

Question 21

Guiding principles of human civilizations that are so central to human identity that can be found around the world

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Cultural Universal

Question 22

Refers to two or more different forms of behavior, which co-exist and are socially acceptable in a given context.

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Cultural Alternative

Question 23

Process of deliberately shaping, by way of tutelage, of the individual for the development of behavioral similarities within a culture

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Socialization

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An encompassing or surrounding of the individual by one’s culture. Acquires it by immersion, what the culture deems to be necessary

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Enculturation

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Ethnic, regional, economic, social groups exhibiting characteristic patterns of behavior sufficient to distinguish them from the larger society which they belong

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Subculture

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The growing interdependence of the world

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Globalization

Question 27

Process of change in artifacts, customs, and beliefs that result from the contact of two or more cultures

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Acculturation

Question 28

Process where individuals of differing ethnic group heritage are absorbed into that dominant culture of society.

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Assimilation

Question 29

Involves taking on the traits of the dominant culture to such a degree that the assimilating group becomes socially indistinguishable

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Assimilation