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| Sets of learned behaviors and ideas that humans acquire as members of society. Humans use culture to adapt to transform the world in which they live. |
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| Something that stands for something else. |
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| Complex, variable, and enduring forms of cultural practice that organize social life. |
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| The philosophical view that reality consists of two equal and irreducible forces. |
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| The philosophical view (dating back at least as far as Plato in Western thought) that ideas - or the mind that produces such ideas - constitute the essence of human nature. |
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| The philosophical view that the material activities of our physical bodies in the material world constitute the essence of human nature. |
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| the philosophical view that one simple force (or a few simple forces) causes (or determines) complex events. |
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| An unchanging core of features that is unique to things of the same kind and that make them what they are. |
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| Perspective on the human condition that assumes that mind and body, individuals and society, and individuals and the environment interpenetrate and even define on another. |
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| The dialectical relationship between biological processes and symbolic cultural processes, in which each makes up an important part of the environment to which the other must adapt. |
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| The opinion that one's own way of life is natural or correct and, indeed, the only true way of being fully human. |
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| understanding another culture in tis own terms sympathetically enough so that the culture appears to be a coherent and meaningful design for living. |
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| The exercise of at least some control over their lives by human beings. |
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| CRITICS of using the term CULTURE to refer to particular, learned ways of life belonging to specific groups of human beings argue... |
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| this way of talking about culture seems to endorse an oppressive kind of cultural determinism. |
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| SUPPORTERS of using the term CULTURE to refer to particular, learned ways of life belonging to specific groups of human beings argue... |
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| that in some cases this version of the culture concept can be used to defend vulnerable social groups against exploitation and oppression by outsiders. |
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