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Culture and Culture Change
Ch. 1
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
08/23/2013

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Term
Anthropology
Definition
-holistic study of humankind
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What is culture?
Definition
The set of learned behaviors and ideas, including beliefs, values, attitudes, and ideals that are characteristic of a particular group
Term

Culture is 

-Shared

-_______

-Adaptive

-Mostly intergrated (Patterned)

-Always Changing

Definition
Learned
Term
The ability to learn culture can be at what stage of life?
Definition
birth
Term
The specifics of culture are learned. How?
Definition
-from others, not biological
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How is culture learned?
Definition
-via experiences  EX: lauguage
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Culture changes becuase it is...
Definition
-not static
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You cannot simply "___" ___ of a culture.
Definition
-Opt out
Term
Believing one's own group to be superior to other groups; judging others by the standards of one's own group
Definition
-Ethnocentrism
Term
The ability to appreciate and understand the worth of others' ways of doing things; understanding others' ideas in the context of their society
Definition
-Cultural Relativity
Term
A description of a people's beliefs, behaviors, values, ideals, practices...
Definition
-Enthnography
Term
One who studies and writes about a group's ways
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-Ethnographer
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Writing about a group in the present tense, even if the account is somewhat out-of-date
Definition
-Ethnographic Present
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