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CHAPTER 4
VOCABULARY WORDS.
Term | Definition |
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Core | the zone of the greatest concentration or homogeneity of the culture traits that characterize a region |
Culture | the shared understandiongs that guide behavior and values and condition a groups perception of the world. it is learned from one generation to the next. it evolves over time |
Culture Hearth | a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward |
Custom | a repetitive act of a group performed to the extent that it becomes a charactreistic |
Domain | outside the core of the culture region in which the culture is still dominate but less intense |
Enviornmental Determinism | the view that the natural enviornment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life including cultural develpment also referred to as enviornmentalism |
Folk Culture | culture traditionally practiced by a small homogeneous rural group living in relative isolation from other groups |