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| A society's shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior |
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| The process by which a society's culture is passed on from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society |
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| An organized group or groups of interdependent people who generally share a common territory, language, and culture and who act together for collective survival and well-being |
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| The culture elaborations and meanings assigned to the biological differentiation between the sexes |
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| A distinctive set of ideas, values, and behavior patterns by which a group within a larger society operates, while still sharing common standards with that larger society |
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| People who collectively and publicly identify themselves as a distinct group based on cultural features such as common origin, language, customs, and traditional beliefs |
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| This term, rooted in the Greek word "ethnikos" (nation) and related to "ethnos" (custom), is the expression of the set of cultural ideas held by an ethnic group |
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| A society in which two or more ethnic groups or nationalities are politically organized into one territorial state but maintain their cultural differences |
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| A sign, sound, emblem, or other thing that is arbitrarily linked to something else and represents it in a meaningful way |
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| The rule-governed relationships - with all their rights and obligations - that hold members of a society together. This includes households, families, associations, and power relations, including politics |
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| The economic foundation of a society, including its subsistence practices and the tools and other material equipment used to make a living |
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| A society's shared sense of identity and worldview. The collective body of ideas, beliefs, and values by which a group of people make sense of the world - its shape, challenges, and opportunities - and their place in it. This includes religion and national ideology |
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| A complex of ideas, activities, and technologies that enables people to survive and even thrive in their enviroment |
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| The belief that the ways of one's own culture are the only proper ones |
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| The idea that one must suspend judgment of other people's practices in order to understand them in their own cultural terms |
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