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| – as immigrant populations take on the values, attitudes, customs and speech of the receiving society which itself undergoes change from the absorption of the arriving group. |
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| We must have food, we must be protected from the elements, and we must defend ourselves. Huxley termed material objects we us to fill our basic daily tasks. |
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| the number of persons supportable within a given area by the technologies at their disposal. |
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| describes the sharing of technologies, organizational structures, and even cultural traits and artifacts that is evidently so widely separated societies. |
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| the likelihood or tendency for cultures to become increasingly dissimilar with the passing time |
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| the study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments they occupy. |
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| - the interconnectedness of all aspects of a culture; no part can be altered without creating an impact on other components of the culture. |
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| natural landscape modified by human activities and bearing the imprint of a culture group or society; the build environment |
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| – a societies collective beliefs, symbols, values, forms of behavior and social organizations, together with its tools structures, and artifacts created according to the groups conditions of life; transmitted as a heritage to succeeding generations and undergoing adaption and modifications. |
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| - a related set of culture traits descriptive of one aspect of societies behavior, or activity , culture complexes may be as basic as those associated with food preparation, serving and consumption or as involved as those associated with religious beliefs or business practices. |
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| - a nuclear area within which an advanced and distinctive se of culture traits, ideas, and technologies develops and from which there is diffusion of those characteristics and the cultural landscape features they might imply. |
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| - a nuclear area within which an advanced and distinctive se of culture traits, ideas, and technologies develops and from which there is diffusion of those characteristics and the cultural landscape features they might imply. |
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| – any condition that hinders the flow of information, the movement of people or the spread of an innovation |
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| • Environmental determinism |
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| the view that the physical environment, particularly climate, controls human actions, molds human behavior and conditions cultural development |
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| – the spread of ideas, behaviors or articles through a culture area or from one culture to neighboring through contact and exchange of information; the dispersion leaves the phenomenon intact or intensified in its area of origin |
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| an economic and social system based primarily or exclusively on the hunting of wild animals and the gathering of food, fiber and other materials from uncultured plants |
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| • Ideological subsystem – |
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| the complex of ideas beliefs, knowledge, and means of their communication that characterize a culture. |
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| – innovations developed in tow or more unconnected locations by individuals or groups acting independently. |
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| ‘- introduction of new ideas practices or objects usually an altercation of custom or culture that originates within the social group itself |
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| the centeral enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs including language, religion, folklore, artristic traditions and the like. Elements in the ideological subsystem of culture. |
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| a concept of independent butt parallel cultural development- Julian steward. |
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| the philosophical viewpoint that the physical environment offers human beings a set of opportunities from which people may choose according to their cultural needs and technological awareness. The emphasis on freedom of choice and action not allowed under environmental determination |
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| - the transfer of ideas behaviors or articles from one place to another through the migration of those possessing the feature transported ; also spatial relocation in which a phenomenon leaves an area of origin as it is transported to a new location |
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| define the social organization of a culture they regulate how the individual functions relative to the group. |
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| the totality of expected and accepted patterns of interpersonal relations common to culture or subculture |
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| the development of a new form of culture trait by the fusion by two or more distinct parental elements. |
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| • Technological subsystem |
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| the complex of material objects together with the techniques of their use by means of which people carry out where productive activities |
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