Cultural Anthropology Ch. 5

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Socialization

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A similar process to enculturation that emphasizes social rather than cultural factors in learning one's culture.

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Social Birth

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Social recognition of the transition to personhood.

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Child-rearing Practices

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Methods used to take care of infants and young children, including ways of feeding, playing with, carrying, and sleeping arrangements.

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Folklore

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Texts that relate traditional stories, the exploits of cultural heroes and characters handed down from generation to generation

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Status

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The position or rank that one occupies in a group or society that carries certain role expectations.

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Gender Identity

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The way that people think about themselves in terms of their sex, how they present themselves as men or women.

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Rites of Passage

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Rituals that mark culturally significant transitions throughout the life cycle, including birth, puberty, marriage, and death.

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Initiation Rites

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Rituals that mark a person's transition from childhood to adulthood.

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Psychological Anthropology

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A subfield of cultural anthropology that studies the psychological motivations of behavior and the personality types prevalent in society.

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Naturalization

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The process of learning and incorporating attitudes, values, and behaviors so that they seem natural or part of one's nature rather than learned cultural behavior.

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Personality

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A constellation of behavioral traits and dispositions. Some features of this emerge at birth while others are acquired in the process of enculturation and psychological and cognitive growth.

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Private Self

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One's inner feelings and concepts of oneself.

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Public Self

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The self that one projects in public, in interactions with others.

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Self-concepts

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Attitudes that people hold about themselves.

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Independent Self

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Concepts of individuals as self-contained, independent agents with a focus on their own thoughts, feelings, and achievements.

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Interdependent Self

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Concepts of individuals as connected with others, related to other people, with a focus on group needs rather than individual inner feelings, opinions, and attitudes.

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National Character

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A constellation of behaviors and attitudes thought to be characteristic of a modal personality type prevalent in a particular country.

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Deviance

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Behaviors that violate cultural norms and expectations.

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Culture-specific Psychological Disorders

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Psychological disorders that seem to occur with some frequency in certain cultures but are rare or absent in others.