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22 Cards in this Set
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ways of thinking and acting, and the material objects that combined form a people's way of life |
Culture |
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people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture |
Society |
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personal disorientaion when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life |
Culture shock |
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anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture |
Symbol |
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a system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another |
Language |
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the process by which one generation passes culture to the next |
Cultural transmission |
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the idea that people see and understand the world through the cultural lens of language |
Sapir-Whorf thesis |
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culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living |
Values |
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specific ideas that people hold to be true |
Beliefs |
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rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members |
Norms |
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norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance |
Mores |
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knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings |
Technology |
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the production of goods using advanced sources of energy to drive large marchinery |
Industry |
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Norms for routine or casual interaction |
Folkways |
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cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite |
High culture |
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cultural pattersn that are widespread among a society's population |
Popular culture |
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cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society's population |
Subculture |
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a perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the United States and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions |
Multiculturalism |
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the domiance of European (especially English) cultural patterns |
Eurocentrism |
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cultural patters that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society |
Counter culture |
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the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture |
Ethnocentrism |
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the practice of judging a culture by its own standards |
Cultural relativism |
