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| a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, and shared by a group of people |
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| the process of learning culture |
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| ideas or rules about how people should behave in particular situations or towards certain other people |
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| fundamental beliefs about what is important, true, or beautiful, and what makes a good life |
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| anything that signifies something else |
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| Cultural classifications of what kinds of people and things eixts, and the assignment of meaning to those classifications |
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| understanding a group's beliefs and practices within thier own cultural context, without making judgements |
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| unilineal culture evolution |
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| the theory proposed by nineteenth-century anthropologists that all cultues naturally evolve through the same sequence of stages from simple to complex |
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| the idea, attributed to Franz Boas, that cultures develop in specific ways because of thier unique histories |
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| strucatural functionalism |
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| a conceptural framework positing that each element of society serves a particular function to keep the entire system in equilibrium |
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| a conceptual framework that sees culture primarily as a symbolic system of deep meaning |
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| the ability or potential to bring about chnage through action or influence |
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| The uneven distribution od resources and privileges among participants in a group or culture |
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| the ability of a dominant group to create consent and agreement within a population without the use or theat of force |
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| the potential power of individuals and groups to contest cultural norms, values, symbols, mental maps of reality, institutions, and structures of power |
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| a global outlook emerging in response to increasing globalization |
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