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- socialization
- learning about culture and how become a part of society
- enculturation
- children become part of their culture
- language socialization
- children are socialized through language as they are socialzed to use language
- language ideologies
- shared bodies of cultural conceptions and common sense notions about the nature, structure, uses and purposes of language (bridges linguistic system and culture)
- 2 main processes of cultural change
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internal (invention) and external (cultural diffusion)
ex: capitalism, monetary system, technology, medicine, etc - cultural diffusion
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cultural borrowing through contact
(direct-sustained presence; indirect-intermediary b/w cultures) - acculturation
- exchange of cultural features through continuous firsthand contact (already have culture and are changing it to a differnt one)
- 2 extremes of acculturation
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assimilation-1 culture becomes entirely incorporated into another
syncretism-mixing of elements from 2 traditions to creat a cultural blend (haitian voodoo) - world system theory
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immanuel wallerstein
late 15-16th century
european capitalism began to incorporate other regions and peoples into one world system
parts of this system are linked economically but not politically - 3 parts of wst
- core/ semiperiphery/ periphery
- colonialism
- political, social, economic and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended period of time
- neocolonialsm
- peristence of these ties after political sovereignty
- globalization
- intensifying flow of capial goods, ideas, images and people around the world; accelerating interdependence of nations in a world system linked through int'l trade, mass media, modern transp., cultural exchange
- types of social conflict
- private/ individual; group: banditry, feuding, ethnic conflict,, genocide, ethnocide
- bias toward violence
- focus on protections of valuable resources, rewards, defense of honor, revenger
- bias against conflict
- value sharing and cooperation; valu nonaggressive behavior, build relations on dependence, engage in collective behavior promoting harmony
- kiowa
- rewarded aggressive behavior and bravery in battle (# of horse and battle honors)
- yanomamo
- protecting valuable resources (need violence); women and children are valuabale
- kohistan
- violence for code of honor; take vengeance
- ju/wasi
- peaceful