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Culture Shock - ️️Disorientation due to the inability to make sense out of one's surroundings. Language - ️️System of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another. It is the key to cultural transmission. Sociology - ️️Systematic study of society Symbolic interactionists - ️️A framework in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another Max Weber - ️️Believed the central force in social change was religion. Culture - ️️Beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects that, together, form a people's way of life. Material Culture - ️️The material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing, and jewelry. Nonmaterial Culture - ️️A group's way of thinking (including its beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction); also called symbolic culture Sapir-Whorf Thesis - ️️Language shapes thought and perception. Norms - ️️Rules of behavior Mores - ️️Norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance. Folkways - ️️Norms for routine, casual interaction Subculture - ️️Cultural patterns that distinguish some segments of a societies population.Ethnocentrism - ️️Practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture. Cultural Lag - ️️Ogburn's term for how a group's nonmaterial culture lags behind technological innovations.