Essentials Of Cultural Anthropology Ch 2 Vocabulary

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Culture

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Shared, socially transmitted knowledge and behavior

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Cultural identity

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The cultural tradition a group of people recognize as their own; the shared customs and beliefs that define how a group sees itself as distinctive.

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Society

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A territorially distinct and largely self-perpetuating group whose members have a sense of collective identity and who share a common language and culture.

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Enculturation (socialization)

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The transmission of culture to succeeding generations by means of social learning.

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Patterns of behavior

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The behaviors that most people perform when they are in certain culturally defined situations.

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Role

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A social position in a group, with its associated and reciprocal rights (privileges) and duties (obligations).

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Norms

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Shared ideas and expectations about how certain people ought to act in given situations.

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Values

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Shared ideas or standards about the worthwhileness of goals and lifestyles.

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Symbols

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Objects, behaviors, and so forth whose culturally defined meanings have no necessary relationship to their inherit physical qualities.

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Cultural constructions

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The ways the members of a culture perceive social and natural reality and divide reality into categories that are culturally variable.

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World view

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The way a people interpret reality and events, including how they see themselves in relation to the world around them.