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UNIT 2: Vocab Flashcards

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Knowledge, values, attitudes, and norms shared by and passed on by the meme era of a specific group.

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Culture

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Language

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A way of communication and sharing your ideas and feelings.

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Specific group that shares a language customs, and a common heritage

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Ethnic Groups

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Family or society dominated by men

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Patriarchal

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Belief in more than one God

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Polytheistic

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To change culture or a psychological change that makes you live in between cultures

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Acculturation

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Family with a couple, child(ren), grandparents, cousins, or aunts and uncles living together.

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Extended Family

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Countries not fully established with technology, jobs, buildings, and health.

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Developing countries

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Cultural hearth

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Site of innovation from where ideas, materials, and tech go to many different cultures.

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10
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Belief in only one God

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Monotheistic

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11
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Transmit culture from generation to generation

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Enculturation

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Family that consists of parents, and one or more children.

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Nuclear Family

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Animistic

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Belief in a divine force of nature

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A new method, product, or idea

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Innovation

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Thoughts about what’s good, bad; right, wrong

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Value

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Countries with access to high tech equipment and conveniences

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More developed countries

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No access to high tech equipment or luxuries

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Less developed countries

18
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Structure of social order governing the behavior of individuals.

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Institutions

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Group of people living together in a more or less ordered community.

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Society

20
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Change in speech patterns related to class, region or culture

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Dialect

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Belief in a supernatural power that creates and maintains the universe.

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Religion

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Women hold dominance over men in families

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Matriarchal

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Process of exchanging, borrowing, or accepting knowledge of a region

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Diffusion

24
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Social rules and guidelines (what’s appropriate)

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Norms

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