The knowledge that members of a social organization share

The process of learning the culture

Freud's term that refers to the internalization of society's morals within the self

When society`s demands become part of the individual, acting to control his or her behavior

A group to which one would like to belong and toward which one therefore orients his or her behavior

The universal tendency to deprecate the ways of persons from other societies as wrong, old-fashioned, or immoral and only to think of the ways of one`s own group as superior

The philosophical position that all reality is socially constructed

The subdiscipline in sociology that is the scientific study of the commonplace activities of everyday life

The technical knowledge needed to use and make things

The knowledge necessary to establish, maintain, and operate the technical aspects of social organization

A socially defined position in a social organization

A position in a social organization attained through personal effort

Social position based on such factors as age, race, gender and family over which the individual has no control

The criteria used in evaluating objects, acts, feelings, or events as to their relative desirability, merit, or correctness.

The philosophical position that accepts the reality of things because their nature cannot be denied

The belief that emphasizes hard work and continual striving in order to prove that one is "saved" by material success

Customs of another society must be viewed and evaluated by their standards, not by an outsider's

A subculture that fundamentally opposes the dominant culture

A relatively cohesive cultural system that varies in form and substance from the dominant culture

The willingness to sacrifice in the present for expected future rewards

Social construction of reality - a society's culture determines how the members of that society will interpret their environment

A common method of data collection which entails the direct observation of social phenomena in natural settings