The Kwakieutl Indian's cultural practice of potlatch was unrelated to their physical environment.
Norms concerning very important matters are called mores.
The sanctions for the violation of taboos are generally more severe than the sanctions for the violation of mores.
Language is the most powerful and complex type of symbol.
Viewing a society as immoral for eating dogs is an example of cultural relativity.
In agrarian societies the mode of existence is plow agriculture.
Most of the world's population lives in associational societies.
Japan is a communal society.
In the United States, people tend to have more communal relationships than associational relationships.
The term Great Social Transformation (GST) refers to the profound change in social relationships from communal to associational brought about by industrialization, urbanization, bureaucratization, rationalization, and globalization.
The idea that societies move from communal to associational is consistent with world systems theory.
The idea that societies move from communal to associational is consistent with modernization theory.
Most tropical countries are core nations.
According to world systems theory, nations that are highly industrialized, powerful, and that control the world system are called modernized.
Noticing something that had never been noticed before is called diffusion.
