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Nacirema culture

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North American group loving in the territory between Canadian cree, the Yaqui, and taraumare of Mexico.

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Nacirema beliefs

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fundamental belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the human body is ugly and hat its natural tendency is to debility and disease.

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Nacirema rituals

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perform their household shrines

- the ‘care box’ where they store ‘magical potions without which no native believes he could live’

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what did miners conclude the people of Nacirema to be?

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magic-ridden people

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folkways

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informal norms; guide everyday behaviour

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mores

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more strictly-enforced moral norms

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taboos

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things that is forbidden to do or touch

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rituals or practices

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behaviours that follow on from folkways and morals

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material culture

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the particular way a society interacts with the material world; the everyday objects it uses to do so

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non-material culture

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the ideals, beliefs, arts of a society; its representations of secretions of the world

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cultural universal

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practices or rituals with symbolic value found in every known human culture

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social integration

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process by which individuals are fully incorporated into society by the adoption of cultural norms

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Semiotics

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Study of meanings within cultures, examining signs and symbols

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Semiotic Signs

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an object that represents something other than itself

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semiotic symbol

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an additional meaning or value associated with objects

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values

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the things a culture holds to be most important; sociologically useful it they can help explain how people act

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Protestant ethic

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Weber’s term for a set of values and ways of acting that he thought typical of protestant

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sapir-whorf hypothesis

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theory that our thoughts are limited by the words our language provides for them

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Ideal Culture

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the values and ideals a group of people claims to adhere to their mental image of their society

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multiculturalism

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recognition of multiple different cultures in one society

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ethnocentrism

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judging other cultures by the standard of your own culture; assuming your own culture is the normal more natural one whilst others have strange customs

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Androcentric language

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use of Male words to refer to any person

eg. ‘rights of man’

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Deviance

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any behaviour that goes against the commonly-held values of a society, especially if held to be a threat

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Conformity

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adherence to the main rules and norms of a society conventional behaviour