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Society

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People who live in the same area, separate and different from people outside territory, common culture

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Culture

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Societies beliefs, history, knowledge, customs, etc.

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Cultural trait

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A single object or action or believe produced by culture

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Cultural complex

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A set of interrelated traits

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Material culture

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Objects created or use Buy a cultureparentheses artifacts parentheses

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Nonmaterial cultures

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Abstract human creations

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Cultural values

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Collection of what is good, desirable, proper

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Norms

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Guidelines followed in relations with one another

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Folkways

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Every day habits and conventions

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Mores

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Powerful moral significance. Provoke intense action if broken

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Taboos

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Prohibition against important Moresforbidden

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Symbols

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Commonly understood gestures, words, objects, sounds, colors, designs that stand for something else

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Language

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Organization of written or spoken symbols

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Signs

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Nonverbal communication

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Knowledge

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Attempts to define what exists or really the world

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Beliefs

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Theories and ideas of physical and social world

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Self fulfillment

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Commitment to throw you developing talent/potential’s

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Narcissism

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Extreme self-centeredness

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Hedonism

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Pursuit of pleasure over all other value