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| A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the United States and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions |
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| A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another |
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| A theoretical approach that explores ways in which human biology affects how we create culture. |
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| Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture. |
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| Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society's population. |
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| Cultural patterns that distinguish a society's population elite |
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| Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society's population |
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| Cultural patterns that society oppose those widely accepted within a society |
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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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| Emphasizing and promoting African cultural patterns |
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| Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings |
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| Large-scale cultivation using plows harnessed to animals or more powerful energy sources |
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| Norms for routine or casual interactions |
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| Norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance |
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| People who interact in a defined territory and share a culture. |
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| Personal disorientation when experiencing an unfailiar way of life. |
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| Rules and expectations by which society guides behavior of its members |
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| Specific ideas that people hold to be true |
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| The close relationship among various elements of a cultural system |
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| The domestication of animals |
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| The dominance of European (especially English) cultural patterns |
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| The fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system |
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| The idea that people see and understand the world through the cultural lens of language. |
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| The practice of judging a culture by its own standards |
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| The practice of judging another culture by the standards pf one's pwn culture |
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| The process by which one generation passes culture to the next. |
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| The production of goods using advanced sources of energy to drive large machinery |
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| The production of information information using computer technology |
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| The use of hand tools to raise crops |
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| The use of simple tools used to hunt animals and gather vegetation for food |
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| The way of thinking, the ways of acting, and material objects that together form a people's way of life. |
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| Traits that are part of every known culture |
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