Culture (ch. 4)
Culture vocabulary
Terms
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- technology
- tools and the skills people need to use them
- matriarchal
- women have more authority
- agriculture
- farming
- cultural landscape
- any changes to its environment; also includes the technology used to make the changes
- social structure
- a way of organizing people into smaller groups
- ethics
- standards of accepted behavior
- culture
- the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs
- extended family
- several generations; grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
- cultural traits
- A particular group's individual skills, customs, and ways of doing things
- patriarchal
- men make most family decisions
- nuclear family
- mother, father and their children