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anything that carries a particular meaning
recognized by people who share a culture |
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a system of symbols that allows people to
communicate with one another |
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process by which one generation passes
culture to the next |
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the idea that people see and understand the world
through the cultural lens of language |
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culturally defined standards that people use to decide
what is desirable, good, and beautiful
and that serve as broad guidelines for social living |
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specifics ideas that people hold to be true |
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rules and expectations by which a society guides
the behavior of its members |
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norms that are widely observed and have
great significance |
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norms for routine or casual interaction |
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knowledge that people use to
make a way of line in their surroundings |
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the use of simple tools to hunt animals and
gather vegatation for food |
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the use of hard tools to raise crops |
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large-scale cultivation using plows harnessed
to animals or more powerful energy
sources |
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the production of goods using advanced sources
of energy to drive large machinery |
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the production of information
using computer tech |
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cultural patterns that distinguish
a society's elite |
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cultural patterns that widespread among a
society's population |
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cultural patterns that set apart some
segment of a society's population |
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a perspective recognizing the cultural
diversity of the US and promoting
equal standing for all cultural traditions |
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the dominance of European (especially English)
cultural patterns |
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emphasizing and promoting African
cultural patterns |
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cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely
accepted within a society |
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the close relationships among various elements
of a cultural system |
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the fact that some cultural elements change
more quickly than others, disrupting
a cultural system |
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the practice of judging another culture by
standards of one's own culture |
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practice of judging a culture by its own standards |
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traits that are part of every known culture |
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theoretical approach that explores ways
in which human biology affects how we
create culture |
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people will stop abidding by society norms |
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