UNIT 2: Vocab Flashcards
Knowledge, values, attitudes, and norms shared by and passed on by the meme era of a specific group.
Culture
Language
A way of communication and sharing your ideas and feelings.
Specific group that shares a language customs, and a common heritage
Ethnic Groups
Family or society dominated by men
Patriarchal
Belief in more than one God
Polytheistic
To change culture or a psychological change that makes you live in between cultures
Acculturation
Family with a couple, child(ren), grandparents, cousins, or aunts and uncles living together.
Extended Family
Countries not fully established with technology, jobs, buildings, and health.
Developing countries
Cultural hearth
Site of innovation from where ideas, materials, and tech go to many different cultures.
Belief in only one God
Monotheistic
Transmit culture from generation to generation
Enculturation
Family that consists of parents, and one or more children.
Nuclear Family
Animistic
Belief in a divine force of nature
A new method, product, or idea
Innovation
Thoughts about what’s good, bad; right, wrong
Value
Countries with access to high tech equipment and conveniences
More developed countries
No access to high tech equipment or luxuries
Less developed countries
Structure of social order governing the behavior of individuals.
Institutions
Group of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
Society
Change in speech patterns related to class, region or culture
Dialect
Belief in a supernatural power that creates and maintains the universe.
Religion
Women hold dominance over men in families
Matriarchal
Process of exchanging, borrowing, or accepting knowledge of a region
Diffusion
Social rules and guidelines (what’s appropriate)
Norms
