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Culture quiz review
Review of key terms and phrases from our culture unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ways of living shared by a group of people that are passed from generation to generation | Culture |
| A characteristic or quality of a person that is acquired and communicated through social interaction | Cultural trait |
| Cultural traits that are externally visible | Surface Culture |
| Culture traits that are not obvious unless communicated (often the reasoning or value attached to surface cultural traits) | Sub-surface Culture |
| Refers to someone’s cultural background or where they (or their ancestors) came from | Ethnicity |
| The way society has chosen to categorize people based on physical characteristics such as skin color, hair type, etc. (usually based on how you look) | Race |
| Unfair or unreasonable opinion about someone that is formed before getting to know them, often caused by lack of knowledge or ignorance | Prejudice |
| A generalization, usually exaggerated or oversimplified and often offensive, that is used to describe or distinguish a group | Stereotype |
| Area where a cultural trait originated | Cultural Hearth |
| Spread of cultural characteristics from the areas where they originated to new areas | Cultural Diffusion |
| Diffusion where people physically move to a new area and take their culture with them | Relocation |
| Diffusion where culture continuously spreads from an authority or hearth | Hierarchical diffusion |
| Diffusion where culture is spread through contact from person to person, like a disease | Contagious diffusion |
| Diffusion where an idea is modified or combined with another idea to create something new | Stimulus diffusion |
| The merging of culture traits from previously separated culture groups | Assimilation diffusion |
| Paper money originated in China, but countries today have a different form of currency than China. | Example of Stimulus Diffusion |
| Missionaries usually tried to convert kings or tribal leaders to their religion, in the hopes that their people would follow. | Example of Hierarchical Diffusion |
| The migration of Christianity with European settlers who came to America | Example of Relocation Diffusion |
| A fake news story about Reeses Peanut Butter cups being pulled off the shelves in 2017 was somehow shared by nearly half a million people. | Example of Contagious Diffusion |
| The belief in, and practice of, the domination of one social group, identified as a “race,” over another social group, identified as another “race.” | Racism |
| A customary ceremony where the actions and wording are performed in a specific sequence or order | Ritual |
| A special right or advantage granted to a specific person or group. In social structures, can also mean the absence of barriers that other persons or groups may have. | Privilege |
| The practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people | Discrimination |
| Providing everyone with the same amount of support regardless of their abilities or backgrounds (values SAMENESS) | Equality |
| Providing everyone with the amount of support they need by taking their abilities and backgrounds into account (values FAIRNESS) | Equity |
| Something that stands for or represents an idea, belief, action, or entity. | Symbol |
| Ceremonies or events that mark an important stage in someone's life like birth, adulthood, marriage or death. | Rites of passage |
| The inclusion of people from different races, ethnicities, sexual orientation and socioeconomic backgrounds | Diversity |
| The increasing interconnectedness and integration of economies, cultures, and populations worldwide | Globalization |
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