Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

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.  

A mild backwardness in mental development with no indication of brain pathology but evidence of similar limitation in at least one of the parents or siblings.  

The extent to which test performance does not depend upon information or skill provided by one culture but not another, culture fair tests.  

The effects of human culture on human evolution.  

Accepting one’s own cultural values as valid for all.  

A type of tubal ligation procedure that entails reaching and cutting the fallopian tubes through the vagina.