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The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objectss that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next |
Culture |
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The material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buidings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles,clothing, and jewelry |
Material culture |
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A group's ways of thinking (including it's beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction); Also called symbolic culture |
Nonmaterial culture |
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The disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life |
Culture shock |
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The use of one's own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other indiviuals or societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors |
Ethnocentrism |
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Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms |
Cultural relativism |