 | Chapter Objectives
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After reading Chapter 2, students should:
be familiar with the components of culture: norms, values, symbols, and language.
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| | | understand the relationship between cultural unity and diversity.
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| | | be familiar with the concepts of cultural universals and cultural integration.
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| | | be able to distinguish between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
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| | | be familiar with subcultures and countercultures.
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| | | be familiar with the components of social structure: statuses, roles, groups, institutions, and societies.
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| | | be able to distinguish between ascribed, achieved, and master statuses.
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| | | be able to define roles, role performance, role conflict, and role strain.
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