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8 Cards in this Set
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Adaptation |
series of beneficial adjustments to a particular environment |
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Cultural Adaptation |
complex of ideas, technologies, & activities that enables people to survive and even thrive in their environment |
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Culture |
society's shared & socially transmitted ideas, values, emotions & perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience & generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior |
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Enculturation |
process by which a society's culture is passed on from one generation to the next and individuals become members of society |
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Characteristics of Culture |
Culture is learned, shared, symbolic, integrated, dynamic. |
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Society |
organized group of interdependent people who generally share common territory, language, & who act together for collective survival & well being |
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Gender |
cultural elaborations and meanings assigned to the biological differentiation between the sexes |
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Pluralistic / Multi-Ethnic Societies |
two or more ethnic groups or nationalities are politically organized into one territorial state but maintain their cultural differences |
