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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Customs and Traditions-element | Rules for behavior including what members of that culture wear,eat,sleep and social behaviors like dating and marriage and also the way a person is treated after death. |
| Arts and Literature-elements | Vital to understanding that culture and also teaches others the values of that specific culture |
| Government-element | Provides common needs including order and protection. Refers to both person/people who hold power in a society,societies laws and political issues |
| Economic systems-element | Decide how a culture will use limited resources to satisfy their unlimited wants and needs |
| ideologies | a set of conscious and unconscious ideas that constitute ones goals, expectations and actions. |
| Socialization | Process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self-identity and the physical mental, and social skills needs for survival in society. |
| Opinion leaders-agent | any person who for any reason has more than usual influence on the views of other |
| mass media-agent | a large influence on the formation of self identity |
| Ethnocentrism | judging another culture by the values and standards of ones own culture |
| Multiculturalism | ideologies or policies that promote diversity and focus on interaction and communication between different cultures. |
| Cultural diversity- | different cultures respect for each others differences. Respect needs to be included in all facets of culture including language, dress, traditions, and customs |
| Manifestations of diversity | differences clear to the eye |
| Racial diversity | the belief that one racial group is naturally superior to another |
| religious diversity | cultures are often defined by their religion |
| ethic diversity | a socially defined category of people who identify with each other based on a perceived shared social experince or ancestry |
| economic diversity | many cultures are defined by their economic class (upper,middle,lower) |
| globalization | the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture |
| sociocultural evolution | term for theories of cultural evolution, describing how cultures and societies have changed over time |
| neoevolutionism | concerned with long term, directional, evolutionary spocial change and with the regular patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, separated cultures |
| sociobiology | based on the premise that some behaviors are at least partly inherited and can be affected by natural selection. |
| what happened during the Agricultural Revolution | people learned to farm and second their learned to domesticate animals |
| civilization | a highly organized group of people with their own language and ways of living |
| cultural diffusion | the spread of cultural items such as ideas, styles religions, technologies, and language within a single culture or from one culture to another |
| nationalism | leads to stereotyping in the assumption that members of the nation have more in common than they actually do. "culturally unified" |