UNIT 3: Chapter Six - 3.1, Pages 130-137 Flashcards
Culture
All of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects.
Visible Culture
A group’s actions, possessions, and influence on the landscape.
Invisible Culture
Shared beliefs, systems, customs, and traditions.
Cultural Traits
The types of elements, visible and invisible.
Cultural Complex
A series of interrelated traits.
Taboos
behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture.
Traditional Culture
Encompasses all three cultural designations. All three types share the function of passing down long-held beliefs, values, and practices and are generally resistant to rapid changes in their culture.
Folk Culture
The beliefs and practices of small, homogenous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are relatively isolated and slow to change.
Indigenous Culture
When members of an ethnic group reside in their ancestral lands, and typically possess unique cultural traits, such as speaking their own exclusive language.
Globalization
The increased integration of the world economy since the 1970s.
Popular Culture
When cultural traits– such as clothing, music, movies, and types of businesses –spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups.
Horizontal Diversity
Each traditional culture has its own customs and language that makes it distinct from other culture groups.
Vertical Diversity
Modern urban societies are usually heterogeneous, or exhibiting differences, within the society and usually contain numerous multiethnic neighborhoods.
Artifacts/Material Culture
Tangible things, or those that can be experienced by the senses.
Mentifact/Nonmaterial Culture
Intangible concepts, or those not having a physical presence.
