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| A group of people with a common territory, interaction, and culture |
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| Two or more people who interact and indentify with each other |
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| Formal boundaries which are recognized as belonging to a specific group |
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| Members who come into contcat with one another on a regular basis |
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| Members who come into contact with one another on a regular basis |
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| People of the same society who share, languaage, beliefs, values, behavior and material objects that constitute a peoples way of life. |
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| The defining element of a society. |
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| Groups seeking to become part of a pluralistic society often have to give up many of their original traditions in order to fit in. |
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| A society in which people from different societies blen together in a sinlge mass. |
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| A term that recognizes the original heritage of millions of Americans, noting that Americans who were from other societies do not necessarily have to lose their individula markers by melting into the mainstrem. |
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| Hunting & Gatherin Socieites |
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| Survive by unting game and gathering edible plants. |
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| Domestication of plants and animals let to the birth of the Horticultural and Pastoral Socieites |
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Hand Tools used to tend grops. Tools are simple. eg. sticks and joe like instruments used to pucnh holes.
Peole could now grow their own food. No longer had to leave the area when food was exhausted. |
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| Rely on domestication and breeding of animals for food. |
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| Societies that tend crops with an animla harnessed to a plow. |
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| The invention of the plow during the horticultural and pastortal societies created this revolution. |
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| Used advanced sources of energy, rather than humans and animals to run l;arge machinery. |
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| Describes the position a perosn has in a prticular setting. |
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| The set of norms, values, behaviors and personality characteristics attaached to status. |
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| The set of norms, values, behaviors and personality characteristics attaached to status. |
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| Everything made,learned or shared by the members of a society, including values, beliefs, behaviors and material objects. |
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| A culturally approved concept about which what is right or wwrong, desirable or undesirable. |
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| Principles about how things should be and differ greatly from society to society. |
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| Specific idea that people feel to be true, they are supported by values. |
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| A group whose members are in the majority or who weild more power than other groups. |
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| A group that lives differently from but not opposed to the dominat culture. A culture within a culture. |
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| Intangible aspects of a culture, such as values and beliefs. Consist of concepts and ideas that shape who we are and make us different from members of other societies. |
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| Consists concrete, visible parts of a culture, such as food, clothing, cars, weapons, and buildings. Aspects will differ from society to society. |
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| FEATURES OF MATERIAL CULTER |
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Soy lattes
CD Buners
Running Shoes
iPods
Lifestyle magazines
SUVS
Organic Vegetables. |
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Sociologist of race relations in the US.
Color line
Inpact of racisim on blacks and whites. |
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| A subculture that opposes the dominat culture, eg. hippies in the 60s |
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| The tendency to judge another culture by the standards of ones own culture, , Usually entails the notion that ones own culture is superior to everyone else's. |
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The opposite of etnocentricism - the exmaination of a culture trait within the context of that culture.
Trys to under stand |
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| The susrprise, disorientation, and fear people can experience when they encouter a new culture |
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Term coined by Willion Ogburn,
Tendency for material and nonmaterial culture to occur at different rates.
He proposed that changes in nonmaterial culture tend to lag behand changes in material culture including technology. |
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| The process whereby an aspect of culture spreads throughout a culture from one culture to another. |
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