Chapter 3: Culture Introduction to

beliefs - Answer tenets or convictions that people hold to be true countercultures - Answer groups that reject and oppose societies widely accepted cultural patterns cultural imperialism - Answer the deliberate imposition of one's own cultural values on another culture cultural relativism - Answer the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards, and not in comparison to another culture cultural universals - Answer patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies culture lag - Answer the gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture's acceptance of it culture shock - Answer an experience of personal disorientation when confronted with an unfamiliar way of life culture - Answer shared beliefs, values, and practices diffusion - Answer the spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another discoveries - Answer things and ideas found from what already exists ethnocentrism - Answer to evaluate another culture according to the standards of one's own culture