Glossary of Cross-Cultural Communication Terminology | Part Four
- Rites of intensification — religious practices that increase group solidarity and commitment
- Rites of passage — religious practices that mark an individual’s passage from one life stage into another
- Role — the behavior, attitudes, and values associated with a particular status
- Role conflict — conflict between the demands of a single role or between roles
- Role set — an array of roles that accrue to a particular status
- Rules of descent — a set of ordered relations limiting recruitment into various kinship groups
- Secondary groups — utilitarian, formal, and impersonal groups
- Selector — a tool used to discriminate among several inputs
- Skill — the acquired ability to apply a given technique effectively and readil
- Social class — those people on a social scale who see themselves as equal and are seen as equal by others on the scale
- Social organization — the regularization of interpersonal relations
- Society — a social organization made up of a group of people who share a geogrpahical area and a culture
- Sororal polygyny — a marriage arangement by which a man marries a woman and er sisters
- Sororate marriage — an arrangement by which if a woman dies childless, her sister marries the widower
- State — a governmentall unit based territoriality, cultural organization, and formal government
- Status — a position or place in a social system with its attendant rights and duties
- Stratification — a hierarchy of statuses
- Subculture — a cluster of behavior patterns related to the general culture and yet distinguishable from it
- Survey — a research technique involving collecting data by systematic questioning of individuals
- Switch — a valve with a finite number of positions
- Technique — a set of categores and plans used to acheive a given end
- Technological systems — those parts of culture that enable man to produce objective changes in his physical and biological environment
- Technology — the sum total of all the social customs by which a people manipulate entities and substances of all kinds
- Terms of address — terms used to address persons
- Terms of reference — terms used to talk about persons
- Tools — devices for transmitting, transforming, or storing energy
- Totem — a nonhuman “progenitor” of a clan
- Trap — a tool that is a selector combined with a container
- Tribe — a group of people who share a language, culture, and territory and see themselves as an autonomous unit
- Unilateral descent — descent traced through only one parent
- Urban anthropology — the crosscultural study of urbanization
- Valve — a device that passes different kinds or quantities of input at different times
- Vehicle — a tool used to transmit stored objects, energy, or information through space
- Vertical status — the hierarchical ordering of statuses
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