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23 Cards in this Set
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Ethnocentrism
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tendancy to veiw one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups
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Cultural Relativism
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Belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards
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Cultural Universals
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Common feature that are found in all human cultures
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Culture
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shared products of human culture. These products include physical objects and the beliefs, values, and behaviors shared by the group
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Counter Culture
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group that rejects the values, norms, and the practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns
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Culture Patterns
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combination of a number of culture complexes into an interrelated whole
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Culture Complex
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clusters of interrelated culture traits
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Culture Trait
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individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need
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Subculture
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group with its own unique values, norms, and behaviors that exists within a larger culture
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Non-material Culture
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Abstract human creations, such as languages, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work practices, and political, economic systems.
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Technology
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knowledge and tools people use for practical purposes
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Symbols
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anything that stands for something else and has a shared meaning attached to it
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Values
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shared belief about what it good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable
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Norms
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shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations
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Arapesh
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gentle people
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Mundugumor
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fierce people
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Yanomamo
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fierce people, horticulturalists
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George Murdock
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anthropologist who found traits general to all cultures
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Margaret Mead
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studied the Arapesh and Mundugumor
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Folkways
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norms that do not have great moral significance attached to them-common customs
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Mores
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norms that have great moral significance attached to them
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Marvin Harris
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studied the people who would not slaughter cows
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Chagnon
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studied the Yanomamo people
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