Category: C

Culture traits or patterns that combine to achieve a goal.  

The tendency to think that the customs prevailing in one’s own culture are the natural and usually superior way of doing things.  

Interacting with the community establishes roots in the community and provides a person with a sense of belonging.  

Widely held beliefs or sentiment that some activities, relationships, feelings, or goals are important to the community’s identity or well-being.  

One of the forms of the sociological theories of alcoholism. Specifically, it is thought that as ingestion of alcohol reduces anxiety and tension produced by a society, it is proposed that cultural factors that create these tensions may be responsible for the development of alcoholism.  

Normative statements shared by a group concerning the ways individuals in specific social roles should act, think, and feel.  

An approach to labeling that defines normalcy relative to standards established by a particular social structure.  

A society composed of many varied cultures forming a unified group.  

Children who are educationally handicapped as a result of their low socioeconomic level and that of their families.  

An imbalance or dislocation in a changing culture where one phase lags behind another in rate of change or in status change.