Anthro 2

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Culture

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A society's shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and which generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior.

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Enculturation

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The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation of the next and individual become member of their society.

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Society

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An organized group or groups of interdependent people who generally share a common territory, language, and culture and who at together for collective survival and well-being.

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Gender

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The cultural elaboration and meanings assigned to the biological differences between the sexes.

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Subculture

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A distinctive set of standards and behavior patterns by which a group within a larger society operates, while still sharing common standards w that larger society.

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Ethnic Group

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People who collectively and publicly identify themselves as a distinct group based on various cultural features such as shared ancestry and common origin, language, customs, and traditional beliefs.

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Ethnicity

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This term, rooted in the Greek word 'ethnikos' ("nation"), is expression of the set f cultural ideas held by an ethnic group.

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Pluralistic Society

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A society in which two or more ethnic groups or nationalities are politically organized into one territorial state but maintain their cultural differences.

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Symbol

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A sign, sound, emblem, or other thing that is arbitrarily linked to something else and represents it in a meanigful way.

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Social Structure

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The rule-governed relationships-with all their rights and obligations--that hold members of a society together. Includes households, families, associations, and power relations, including politics.

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Infrastructure

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A society's shared sense of identity and world-view. The collective body of ideas, beliefs, and values by which a group of people makes sense of the world--its shape, challenges, and opportunities--and their place in it. Includes religion and national ideology.

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Ethnocentrism

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The belief that the ways of ones' own culture are the only proper ones.

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Cultural Relativism

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The idea that one must suspend judgment of other people's practices in order to understand them in their own cultural terms.

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Adaptation

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developing physical/cultural characteristics that result in a beneficial adjustment.