3.1 Introduction To Culture Flashcards

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What is culture

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Shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors

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Custom

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A group of people who repetitively repeat an act to the point where it becomes a characteristic. A tradition

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3
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Taboo

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A restriction on behavior imposed by a group of people. Anything that is Against a culture or a law

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4
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Habit

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A repetitive act performed by a particular individual

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5
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Folk culture

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Diffused by people, cultures and man made things

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Pop culture

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Diffused by modern technology’s and the media

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Long lot settlement pattern

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Linear settlement where lot has access to key resources

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Material culture

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The visible objects made and used by a culture. Ex: buildings, instruments, clothes

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Non material culture

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Invisible objects, beliefs myths values and symbolic meanings

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Cultural traits

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All traits, both non material and material

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Local (folk) culture

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Opposed to change, connected to land, pass down traditions

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Indigenous cultures

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No longer the dominant group. First people there. EX: native Americans

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Pop culture

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Influences by urban areas, accepts change, usually the young Drive the change

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Cultural attitudes

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Concept or ideas in a society, shaped by beliefs and perspectives

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Language

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A mutually agreed upon system of symbolic communication

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Polyglot

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Someone who is fluent in two languages

17
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Religion

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A set of beliefs and practices where people seek mental and physical harmony

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Ethnic group

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People of common ancestry and cultural tradition. Can be born into or married into

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Multiculturalism

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Policies that promote many cultures

20
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Ethnocentric approach

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Someone who evaluates other cultures by grading it from their own culture

21
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Cultural relativism

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Understand other cultures with a wider perspective with the exception of human rights

22
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Examples of cultural traits

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Architecture
Land use
Food preferences

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Examples of cultural attitudes

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Land use
Gender roles
Race
Ethnicity
Religion