Culture Vocabulary
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- cultural geogrpahy
- the study of people and their ways of life (human geography)
- mores
- social norms that provde the moral standars of a group or society and that are stricly enforced
- monotheism
- belief in one god
- culture hearth
- a place in which important ideas begin and thereafter spread to surrounding cultures
- ethnocentrism
- regarding one's own culture as being superior to others and judging other cultures from the perspective of your own culture
- enculturation
- the slow and day-to-day process of learning your group's culture as an infant and a child.
- cultural landscape
- the forms and artifacts sequentially placed on the physical landscape by the activities of avarious human occupants
- extended family
- a household that includes not only parents and children, but also other relatives such as grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins
- culture
- the total way of life of a group of people, including their beliefs, instituitions, and technology
- non-material culture
- the idea part of culture wich includes religion, language, spiritual beliefs, superstitions, values, ways of viewing or behahing in the world
- polygamy
- the marriage of a person ot more than one wife or husband
- subculture
- the attitudes, beliefs, values, and behavioral habits shared by a group of people within a society, which differ from those of the society as a whole.
- socialization
- the process by which the accepted values, rules and ways of operating a society are passed on to the young
- technology
- the methods, tools, and machinery that humans have developed
- material culture
- the object part of culture; all things that people make or build with natural or human made resources; it includes food, clothing, architecture, artrs, crafts, technology, ect.
- beliefs
- ideas or theories about the natural or supernatural world that are not supported by objective or factual evidence
- norm
- a rule or standard that defines what people should or should not do, think, or feel in any given social situation
- value
- an idea about what is good, right, wise or beneficial
- diffusion
- the process of accepting, borrowing, and exhchanging traits from one society ot another, the spatial spreading or dissemination of a culture elemtent
- Acculturation
- the process that occurs when contact between two cultures results in substantial change in the culture of the individual members of one or both groups
- custom
- a practice from the past that people continue to observe
- civlization
- an urbanized society with a large very complex social organization; common attributes of civilizations include: Specialized division of labor, Long-distance trade, Tribute and taxation, Advances in record keeping, Science and mathematics, Some form of written money, Monumental public architecture
- dialect
- a local variation of a language
- Clan
- a kinship group based on descent through either males or females. Clan members frequently live and work together and believe they are descendants from a common ancestor
- gender roles
- the pattern of behavior texpected of males and females in a society
- cultrual region
- and area of land whre most people have enough in common to be considered a group
- ethnic goup
- a group of people who share a language,history, or place of origin; a large group of people who have more in common with eachother than they do with other peoples
- diverstiy
- wide variations on features
- polytheism
- belief in many gods
- race
- within a single species, a group of living creatures sharing the same appearance or genetic characteristics. the concept of race among humans is more complicatied and includes socail and cultural, as well as biological assessment
- folkways
- traditional social customs
- cultural trait
- a single element of a normal practice ina culture, such as the wearing of a turban
- laws
- standardized and formalized norms that regulate conduct
- religion
- beliefs and practices regarding supernatural beings, power, and forces