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week 6
vocab
Term | Definition |
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Myth | a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. |
Community | a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. |
Archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing. |
Race | a competition between runners, horses, vehicles, boats, etc., to see which is the fastest in covering a set course. |
Culture | the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. |
Class | a set or category of things having some property or attribute in common and differentiated from others by kind, type, or quality. |
Assimilation | assimilation definition. The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group: “Waves of immigrants have been assimilated into the American culture.” |
Identity | the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. |
Pluralism | a condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist. |
Society | the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. |