A collection of ideas, values, practices, and material objects that mean a great deal to a group of people and allow them to carry out their collective knives in relative order and harmony
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Values
Informal rules that guide what people do and how they live
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Norms
Informal rules that guide what people do an how they live and are reinforced through sanctions
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Folkways
Relatively unimportant norms
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Moresmore important norms where the violation of them is usually met with severe negative sanctions
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Material Culture
Artifacts and “stuff” as a part of culture in which culture is reflected or manifested
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Symbolic culture
Nonmaterial, intangible aspects of culture
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Ideal culture
What norms and values make us think people want us to believe and do
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Real culture
What people actually think and do in their everyday lives
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Ideology
Set of shared beliefs that explains the social world and guides people’s actions
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Meritocracy
A dominant ideology in the US meaning people widely believe that all people have an equal chance of succeeding economically
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Subcultures
Groups of people who accept much of the dominant culture
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Deviant subcultures examples
Punks, goths
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Countercultures
Groups that differ from the dominant culture and adhere to norms incompatible with the dominant culture.
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Culture wars
The disruption of he social, economic, and political status quo
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Multiculturalism
The encouragement of cultural differences within a given environment
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Identity politics
When minority groups use power to strengthen the position of cultural groups the identify with such as protests or demonstrations
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Cultural relativism
Viewing other cultures from their perspective
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Ethnocentrism
Viewing other cultures from one’s point of view
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Cultural imperialism
The imposition of aspects of a dominant culture on other cultures
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Americanization
The importation by other countries a variety of cultural elements closely associated with the United States
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Anti-Americanism
An inversion to the US in general as well as to the influence of its culture abroad
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Culture Jamming
A form of protest in which the goal is to reveal underlying realities consumers are unaware of
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