Socual Flashcards
What is culture
A learned way of living in a group of people including beliefs values
What is cultural diversity
When culture aren’t the same
What is cultural similarities
Certain things all cultures have in common
What is acculturation
Changes brought about by the meeting of cultures
What is assimilation
The absorption of one group of people into another causing them to adapt to the customs beliefs
What is ethnocentrism
Evaluation of other cultures according to our own culture
What is cultural patterns
A way scientists study culture
Difference between industrial and non industrial economies
Industrial is machines and oil and gas and non industrial is relistate and hospitals
What are political patterns
They way people in a culture make decisions and settle their differences and
Know the 3 types of power
Physical-to enforce any decision making made by leaders
Economics-earn money for the things you want
Authorities-power given by consent
What are kinship patterns
The way in which a cultural group organizes the roll and duties of family members
Difference between nuclear and extended family
Nuclear is parents and their kids and extended is parents kid’s grandparents aunts uncles
Patrilineal line of family member ship
Dads side
Matrilineal line of family member ship
Moms side
Monogamy
Married to 1 person
