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Culture
Chapter 2
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
02/07/2011

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maladaptive
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the last tree being cut down oil drilling
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adaptive
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materials that provide shelter for particular challenges
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ethnocentrism
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: tendency to view one’s own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people by one’s own standards
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accultuatzation
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the exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct.
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cultural relativism
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position that the values and standards of cultures differ and deserve respect. In order to understand other cultures, its important to understand the beliefs and motivations. Methodological relativism does not allow making judgments or taking action.
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diffusion
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borrowing between cultures either directly or through intermediaries.
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enculturation
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the social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across the generations.
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globalization
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: the accelerating interdependence of nations in a world system linked economically and through mass media and modern transportation systems.
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human rights
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: doctrine that invokes a realm of justice and morality beyond and superior to particular countries, cultures, and religions.
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indépendant invention
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development of the same culture trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances.
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international/national culture
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cultural traditions that extend beyond national boundaries.
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subcultures
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different cultural symbol-based traditions associated with subgroups in the same complex society.
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symbols
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verbal or non-verbal that stands for something else, with which it has no necessary or natural connection.
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universal
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foun in every culture
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what is culture how is it aquired
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an attribute not of individuals per se, but of individuals as members of groups. Shared beliefs, values, memories, and expectations link people who grow up in the same culture.. It is transmitted in society.Acquired unconsciously, by observation, experience, behavior.
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how is it different from society
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Culture is language, symbols, values, and beliefs. Society is a large group of human beings, including their culture, economy, power systems, political systems, communities,
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culture as a symbol system
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the ability to learn, to think symbolically, to manipulate language, and to use tools and other cultural products in organizing lives and coping with their environments.
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culture molds biologically based
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cultural adaptation, maladaptation, levels of culture; mechanisms of culture change: holistic and comparative perspective, relationship of culture and biology
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levels of culture
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national(emododies those beliefs, learned behavior patterns, values and institutions that are shared by the citizens of the same nations) international(extends beyond national boundries) and subcultural(different experiences along with shared ones, particular groups within the same society)
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mechanisms of culture change: holistic and comparative perspective
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diffusion, acculturation, and independant invention. blovalization describes a series of processes that promote change in a world in which nations and people are interlinked and mutually dependant.
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relationship of culture and biology
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generalities
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common to several, but no all human groups
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