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| the ways of thinking the ways of acting and the material objects together form a peoples way of life |
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| people who interact in a definedteritory and share a culture |
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| personal disorientation when experiencing and unfamiliar way of life |
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| Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture |
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| A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another |
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| The process by which one generation passes culture to the next |
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| Idea that people see and understand the world through the cultural lens of language |
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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 |
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| Specific ideas that people hold to be true |
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| Rules and expectations by which a society guides the begavior 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 interaction |
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| Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surrondings |
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| Use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation for food |
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| 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 machinery |
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| production of information using computer technology |
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| Cultural patterns that distinguish a societys elilte |
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| Cultural patterns that are widespread among a societys population |
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| Cultural patterns that are widespread among a societys population |
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| A perspective recoginizing the cultural diversity of the United States and promotiong equal standing for all cultural traditions |
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| The dominance of European cultural patterns |
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| Emphasizing and promotiong African cultural patterns |
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| Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a societys population |
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| Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within the society |
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| The close relationships among 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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| Practice of judging another culture by the standars of ones own culture |
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| Practice of judging a culture by its own standads |
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