Chapter 13: Characteristics of Culture

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subculture

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A distinctive set 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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society

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An organized group or groups of interdependent people who generally share a common territory, language, and culture and who act together for collective survival and well-being.

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homozygous

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refers to a chromosome pair that bears identical alleles for a single gene.

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heterozygous

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Refers to a chromosome pair that bears different alleles for a single gene.

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cultural relativism

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The idea that one must suspend judgment of other people’s practices in order to understand them in their own cultural terms.

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enculturation

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The process by which a society’s culture is passed on from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.

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symbol

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A sound, gesture, mark, or other sign that is arbitrarily linked to something else and represent it in a meaningful way.

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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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ethnic group

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People who collectively and publicly identify themselves as a distinct group based on shared cultural features such as common origin, language, customs and traditional beliefs.

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subculture

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A distinctive set 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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society

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An organized group or groups of interdependent people who generally share a common territory, language, and culture and who act together for collective survival and well-being.

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race

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In biology, the taxonomic category of subspecies that is not applicable to humans because the division of humans into discrete types does not represent the true nature of human biological variation. In some societies race is an important social category.

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Homo erectus

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“Upright human.” A species within the genus Homo first appearing just after 2 mya in Africa and ultimately spreading throughout the Old World.