Cultural Conformity and Adaptation
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LeeAnnWoodhouse on October 20, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Self-fulfillment | A commitment to the full development of one's personality, talents, and potential. (A new american value.) |
| Narcissism | Extreme self-centeredness. |
| Internalization | The process by which a norm becomes a part of an individual's personality, thus conditioning that individual to conform to society's expectations. |
| Sanction | Rewards or punishments uswed to enforce conformity to norms. |
| positive sanction | An action that rewards a particular kind of behavior. |
| negative sanction | An action that is used to discourage an undesired behavior. |
| formal sanction | A reward or punishment given by a formal organization, such as a school, business or government. |
| informal sanction | A spontaneous expression of approval or disapproval given by an individual or group. |
| social control | The enforcing of norms through either internal(self control) or external(police, courts, religion, family) means. |
| ideology | A system of beliefs or ideas that justify the social, moral, religious, political or economic interests held by a group or by society. |
| social movement | A long-term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change. |
| technology | The knowlegde and tools people use to manipulate their environment. |
| diffusion | The process of spreading culture traits from one society to another. |
| reformulation | The process of adapting borrowed culture traits. |
| cultural lag | The situation in which some aspects of the culture change less rapidly (or lag behind) others. (Ex: material culture is much faster than nonmaterial.) |
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