C&C Unit 2 Test Review

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Enculturation

the process by which members of a culture learn and internalize shared ideas, values, and beliefs

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Cognitive Dissonance

the theory that people try to avoid conflict between what they think (attitude) and what they do (behaviour)

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Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which one repeats an action or stops an action because of a punishment or reward that follows the action; an association between a behaviour and a consequence.

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Patriarchy

A social system in which power and authority are in the place of men and women are withheld from it.

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Directed Change

Acculturation through dominance of one culture over another, forcing the defeated to change aspects of its culture or its entire culture.

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Self-Actualization

A complete realization of one’s full potential, at the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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Psychosis

Loosing touch with the real world and may be suffering from delusions and hallucinations.

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Neurosis

Experiencing high levels of anxiety or tension in managing daily life.

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Diffusion

The spread of ideas, methods, symbols and tools from one culture to another.

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Acculturation

Prolonged contact between two cultures, during which time they interchange symbols beliefs, and customs.

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Interaction

Contact with other cultures.

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Behaviour Modification

Theories of psychologists attempting to determine the methods that can successfully change or modify problem human behaviour.

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Tension and Adaptation

The belief that social change results from a process of tension between one aspect of society and the rest.

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Incorporation

Acculturation through free borrowing of ideas and symbols from one culture to another.

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Cultural Evolution

The belief that cultures evolve in common patterns, moving from hunter-gathering cultures to industrialized states in predictable stages.

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Social Change

Changes in the way society is organized, and the beliefs and practices of the people who live in it.

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Reductionist

The cause of change will be reduced to a specific factor.

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Determinist

A specific factor will determine the nature of a social change.

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