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World Cultures Chapter One: Meaning to Culture
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01/03/2014

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Culture
Definition
All the things that make up a person's entire way of life
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7 elements of culture
Definition
social organization, customs and traditions, language, arts and literature, religion, forms of government, economic systems
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social organization
Definition

meant to help the people of a culture work together to meet their basic needs

Example: family patterns, higher authority, and social classes

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family pattern
Definition
either nuclear or extended family dominated in a culture
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Nuclear family
Definition
includes a wife, husband, and children; usually live in cities
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extended family
Definition
includes several generations living in one household; usually live in a farming culture
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higher authority
Definition
decides which gender is dominant in a culture
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patriarchal
Definition
men are dominant authority
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matriarchal
Definition
women and men share equal power
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social classes
Definition
give order of status ranked by money, occupation, education, and ancestory
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What is the cornerstone of a culture
Definition
Language
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What are the products of human imagination
Definition
Arts and literature
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What are arts and literature roles in a culture
Definition
Teach us about our cultural values
Encourage people to feel proud of their customs
Give them a sense of belonging
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What are the two roles of a religion
Definition
answers questions about the meaning and purpose of life
Supports the values that the group finds important
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What is monotheism
Definition
The worship of one god
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What is polytheism
Definition
The worship of more than one God
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What are the five major world religions
Definition
Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam
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What is the purpose of an economic system
Definition
To moniter limited resources to satisfy people's wants and needs
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What are the three questions of all economies
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What goods and services should be produced
How should we produce them
For whom should we produce them
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What is a traditional economy
Definition
People produce most of what they need to survive: hunting, gathering, Farming, herding, bartering
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What is a market economy
Definition
Individuals answer the basic economic questions by buying and selling goods and services: businesses and industry,people earn money to buy what they need and want
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What is a command economy
Definition
The government controlled the economic questions
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What is a mixed economy
Definition
Individuals make some economic decisions and the government makes others: US has this economic system
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What is anarchy
Definition
Absence of government
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What is theocracy
Definition
Government based on religion or subject to religious authority
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What is a democracy
Definition
Government based on rule of the people
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What is dictatorship
Definition
Government controlled by an absolute ruler
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What is aristocracy
Definition
Government based on a hereditary ruling class or nobility
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What is monarchy
Definition
Government ruled by an individual with hereditary right to rule
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What is communism
Definition
Government ruled by an authoritarian party that controls the economy
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List the purposes of a government 5
Definition
Keep societies ordered
Provide public services
Provide for national security
Promote standards of behavior
Make economic decisions
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What is a norm
Definition
A standard model or pattern
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What are folkways
Definition
The ways of living thinking and acting In a human group built up without conscious design but serving as compelling guides of coduct
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What are mores
Definition
Colleagues of central importance accepted without question and embodying fundamental moral views of a group
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What is social control
Definition
Th enforcement of conformity by society upon its members either by law or by social pressure
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What are sanctions
Definition
Authoritative permission or approval as for an action
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What is material culture
Definition
Consists of all the Artifacts or physical objects humans create and give meaning to
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What is nonmaterial culture
Definition
Consists of abstract human creations language ideas beliefs etc
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What is b.c. or b.c.e
Definition
Before Christ before the common era
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What does a.d. and c.e. mean
Definition
Anon Domini (after Christ was born) the common era
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What is assimilation
Definition
Take in and accept as ones own
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What is cultural shock
Definition
State of anxiety or distress do to a society radically different from one's own
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What is cultural pluralism
Definition
Condition in which numerous ethnic religious or cultural
groups are present and tolerated within a society
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What is ethnocrntrism
Definition
To judge other countries by the standards of their own culture
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What is diffusion
Definition
The movement of customs or ideas from one place to another
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What is a subculture
Definition
A group of people within a society who share certain beliefs values and customs
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What is cultural relativism
Definition
Studying another culture from its own perspective and context
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What four things change a culture
Definition
Technology, environment, New ideas, diffusion
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