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1. What is the significance of Hellen Keller’s experience for understanding the part that symbols play in everyday life?
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1. What are the criticism of the linguistics relativity hypotheses?
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1. Why are some aspects of social life – cultural universals – found in all known socities?
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1. Identify ways in which ethnocentrism may have contributed to global violence during your lifetime. How might acceptance of cultural relativism contribute to the resolution of international conflicts? Give examples.
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1. How do each of the concepts in the following sets relate?
a. Norm – value – symbol
b. Status – role – role set
c. Group – institution – society
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1. An act or object that has come to be socially accepted as standing for something else.
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1. Learned patterns for thinking, Feeling, and acting that are transmitted from one generation to the next.
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1. Norms which do not exact stringent conformity.
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1. Physical artifacts created by members of a society.
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1. A social rule that specifies appropriate and inappropriate behavior in given situations.
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1. Norms which exact strict conformity.
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1. Abstract creations like values, beliefs, symbols, norms, customs, and institutional arrangements created by the members of society.
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The view that different languages conceptualize the world of experience differently
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1. Norms which are enforced by a special political organization with the right to employ force.
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1. A group of people who live within the same territory and share a culture.
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1. Broad, shared ideas regarding what is desirable, correct, and good.
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1. A social structured system of sounds patterns ( words and sentences) with the specific and arbitrary meanings.
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1. A value free approach that views people from the perspective of their own culture.
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1. A subculture at odds with the ways of the larger society.
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1. The tendency to judge other groups by the standards of one’s own culture.
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1. The expectations of a single role are incompatible.
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1. The interviewing of peoples interactions and relationships in recurrent and stable patterns.
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The actual behavior of the person who occupies a status
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1. The multiple roles associated with a single status.
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1. A key status that carries primary weight in a person’s interactions with others.