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The beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time |
Culture |
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A way of thinking, behaving, or working that exists in a place or organization |
Culture |
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Constantly changing through inventions, improvement and borrowing from other societies |
Dynamic, Flexible, and adaptive |
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When man needs something, he invests ways of getting what he wants or adapts to what others have discovered to meet his needs |
Dynamic, flexible, and adaptive |
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Different status develop in any group, organization, or society |
Shared and contested (given the reality of social differentiation) |
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The process by which we learn and internalize the rules and patterns of behavior that are affected by culture |
Socialization (Learned through socialization or enculturation) |
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The process by which the younger generation learn and adopt the ways and manners of their culture |
Enculturation (Learned through socialization or enculturation) |
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Process by which people act and react in relation to others |
Patterned social interactions |
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In order to keep the culture functioning, all aspects of it must be integrated (ex. language must be able to describe all the functions within the culture) |
Integrated and at times unstable |
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Culture is built through interaction and learning with the members of the society |
Transmitted through socialization/enculturation |
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Everything that can be said in a certain language cannot be said the same way on the other, meanings are not directly translatable |
Requires language and other forms of communication |
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Speech forms (ex. teasing, charm, flattery, effusiveness or directness have different values in different cultures) |
Requires language and other forms of communication |
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Attitude that one's own cultural, ethnic, or national experience is the hegemonic experience or the most important |
Ethnocentrism |
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Judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture usually leads to negative evaluations of their society |
Ethnocentrism |
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This idea asserts that any particular act, object, feeling, or belief only makes sense in the context of the culture in which it originates. That is, cultural practices must be understood and respected as part of their culture, even if someone disagrees with the practice |
Cultural relativism |
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The appropriateness of any positive or negative custom must be evaluated with regard to how this habit fits with other group habits |
Cultural relativism |
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Anything used to represent, express, and stand for an event or situation |
Symbols |
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A group of words or ideas having common meaning and is shared to a social situation |
Language |
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Anything getting importance in our daily life |
Values |
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Standards and expectations on behavior |
Norms |
