Nonmaterial culture - The intangible, invisible parts of a culture, such as values.
Norm - A guideline or an expectation for behavior.
Nuclear family - One or both parents and their children.
Oligarchy - The rule of the many by the few.
Out-group - A group to which one does not belong and to which one does not feel loyalty.
Outer controls - According to control theory, individuals who encourage people not to
stray into deviance.
Pastoral society - A society that relies on the domestication and breeding of animals for
food. Patrilocality - A social custom in which married couples live in the home of the husband’s
family.
Peer group - A social group in which members are usually the same age and have interests
and social position in common.
Personal space - The area immediately around one’s body that one can claim as one’s
own.