Chapter 4 Flashcards
Custom
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes a characteristic of the group of people performing the act.
Folk Culture
Culture traditionally practiced by small, homogeneous, rural groups living in relative isolation from other groups.
Habit
A repetitive act performed by a repetitive individual.
Popular culture
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other characteristics.
Taboo
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
Terroir
The contribution of a location’s distinctive physical features to the way food tastes.
Assimilation
the merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups, not involving biological amalgamation.
Acculturation
the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group.
Multiculturalism
the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation.
Cultural landscape
cultural properties representing the combined works of nature and of man
