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| ways of thinking, acting, and material objects that form a ppl's way of life |
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| people who interact in a defined territory & share a culture |
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| personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamilar way of life |
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| carries a particular meaning recognized by ppl who share a culture |
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| system of symbols that allows ppl to communicate w/ eachother |
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| process by which one generation passes culture to the next |
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| ppl see and understand the world thru the cultural lens of language |
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| culturally defined standards that ppl use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful that serves as broad guidlines for social living |
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| specific ideas that ppl hold to be true |
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| rules and expectations by wich a society guides the beh of its members |
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| norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance |
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norms for routine or casual interactions
(etiquette) |
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| knowledge that ppl use to make a way of life in their society |
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| the use of simple tool to hunt animals & gather vegitation for food |
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| the use of hand tools to raise crops |
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| the domestication of animals |
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| large-scale cultivation using plows harnessed to animals or more powerful energy sources |
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| production of goods using advanced sources of energy to drive large machinary |
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| the production of information w/ computer technology |
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| cultural patterns that distinguish society's elite |
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| cultural patterns that are widespread among a society's population |
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cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society's population
EX: Yankees & beach crowd |
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| perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the U.S. and promoting = standing for all cultural traditions |
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| the dominence of European cultural patterns |
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| emphasizing and promoting Afro culture patterns |
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| cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted w/in our society |
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| the close relationship amoung various elements of a cultural system |
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| fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system |
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| the practice of judging another culture by the standards of ones own culture |
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| the practice of judging a culture by its own standards |
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| traits that are a part of every know culture |
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| a theoretorical approach that explores was in which human biology affects how we create culture |
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