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What is Culture Vocab
Topic 2 Anth&100
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Anthropology
12th Grade
01/02/2013

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Enculturation
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The process by which human infants learn their culture. It is how culture is transmitted from one generation to the next.
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Subculture
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A distinctive seat of ideas, values, and behavior patterns by which a group within a larger society operates, while still sharing common standards with that larger society
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Cultural Relativism
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The idea that cultural traits are best understood when  veiw within the cultural context of which they are part
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Pluralistic Society
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A society in which two or more ethnic groups or nationalities are politically organized into one territorial state but maintain their cultural differences.
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Adaptation
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Process by which organisms achieve a beneficial adjustment to their environments.
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Integration
Definition
The mutual effect of the interaction of two or more parts of a larger system.
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Emic
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A perspective in ethnogoraphy that uses the concepts and categories that are relevant and meaningful to the culture under analysis.
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Etic
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A perspective in ethnography that uses the concepts and categories of the anthropologist's culture to describe another culture.
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