Review of key terms and phrases from our culture unit
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| Ways of living shared by a group of people that are passed from generation to generation | Culture
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| A characteristic or quality of a person that is acquired and communicated through social interaction | Cultural trait
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| Culture traits that are externally visible | Surface Culture
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| Culture traits that are not obvious unless communicated | Sub-surface Culture
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| Refers to someone’s cultural background or where they (or their ancestors) came from | Ethnicity
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| 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
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| Unfair or unreasonable opinion about someone that is formed before getting to know them, often caused by lack of knowledge or ignorance | Prejudice
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| A generalization, usually exaggerated or oversimplified and often offensive, that is used to describe or distinguish a group | Stereotype
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| Area where a cultural trait originated | Cultural Hearth
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| Spread of cultural characteristics from the areas where they originated to new areas | Cultural Diffusion
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| Diffusion where people physically move to a new area and take their culture with them | Relocation
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| Diffusion where culture continuously spreads from an authority or hearth | Hierarchical
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| Diffusion where culture is spread through contact from person to person, like a disease | Contagious
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| Diffusion where an idea is modified or combined with another idea to create something new | Stimulus
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| The merging of culture traits from previously separated culture groups | Assimilation
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| Paper money originated in China, but countries today have a different form of currency than China. | Example of Stimulus Diffusion
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| Missionaries usually tried to convert kings or tribal leaders to their religion, in the hopes that their people would follow. | Example of Hierarchical Diffusion
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| The migration of Christianity with European settlers who came to America | Example of Relocation Diffusion
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| 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
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| 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
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| A customary ceremony where the actions and wording are performed in a specific sequence or order | Ritual
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| 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
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| The practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people | Discrimination
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| Providing everyone with the same amount of support regardless of their abilities or backgrounds (values SAMENESS) | Equality
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| Providing everyone with the amount of support they need by taking their abilities and backgrounds into account (values FAIRNESS) | Equity
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| Attitude that one's own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others | Ethnocentrism
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| The idea that a person's beliefs and practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture. | Cultural relatavism
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