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Unit I

What is Social Studies?

Culture the ideals, values, and beliefs members of a society share to interpret experience and generate behavior and that are reflected by their behavior
Enculturation/Socialization the process of learning one's culture
Acculturation the process where one may give up his/her own culture and take on the values of another culture
Culture Shock being unable to deal with another culture
Ethnocentrism examining another culture from your own point of view
Ethnography a written description of a human culture/people
Cultural Relativity looking at another culture from its own point of view
Archipelago a group or chain of islands
Isthmus a narrow strip of land that connects 2 larger areas of land and separates 2 bodies of water
Delta an area of sediment formed at the mouth of a river
Peninsula a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water
Plain a large, flat, or level area of land
Plateau an eleveated, mostly level area of land
Strait a narrow body of water connecting 2 larger bodies of water
Savanna tropical grasslands
Steppe a vast, treeless plain
Longitude vertical lines on a map or globe
Latitude horizontal lines on a map or globe
Hemisphere one half of the earth
Invention a new way of doing something
Inventor/Change Agent person who creates a new way of doing something; they tend to be young, bright, gutsy, an outsider
Cultural Change when a new idea (or invention) is accepted and begins being used by others in culture
Cultural Diffusion when a new idea (or invention) spreads to another culture
Cultural Lag when there are barriers and new ideas haven't reached other places yet
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