culture Flashcards
the sum of learned and shared beliefs and behaviors of a group
culture
culture is comprised of several components ( 5 major social institutions- Economics, Education, Family, Politics, and Religion )
integrated
cultures are not isolated, interact with each other, and are changed by this interaction
interactive and changes
the integration of cultures and economics
globalization
the spread or borrowing of traits between cultures
diffusion
the exchange of cultural features that occurs when groups have continuous first hand contact with each other
acculturation
examples of this are cars, gunpowder, etc
invention
the comparative study of ethnographic data
Ethnology
a group of people who share the same culture and history
ethnic group
a group of people who live together and have the same culture
society
learned and shared beliefs and behavior overlap with but depart significantly from mainstream culture; these emerge in nations for various sociological and historic reasons
subculture
culture based on age, class, gender, neighborhood, region, etc
microculture
pertains to a large group of people who posses an egalitarian and informal form of sociopolitical organization
tribe
ethnic groups that have had a long term occupation of a particular area of land
indigenous people
a person’s economic position in a society
class
