Ethel Wood Study Guide Ch. 4 Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Acculturation |  The less dominant culture adopts some of the traits of the more influential one |
| Assimilation |  The dominant culture completely absorbs the less dominant one |
| Behaviors | Actions that people take |
| Beliefs | Specific statements that people hold to be true, almost always based on values |
| Cultural determinism | The belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels. |
| Cultural Diffusion | The spreading of cultural traits from one society to another |
| Cultural ecology | The study of how human society has adapted to enviromental challenges. |
| Cultural environment | An environment that has developed as a result of a specific culture group's economic and social activities. |
| Cultural landscape | The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group |
| Cultural Leg | A slower rate of change in a society as compared with others; the failure of the nonmaterial culture to keep up with developments in the material culture. |
| Cultural perception | The varying attitudes and ideas that culture groups have regarding how space, place, and territory are identified and used. |
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, material traits (clothing, housing, food), and social forms that make up the distinct traditions of a group of people. |
| Culture Hearth | Place of origin of a major culture |
| Culture Trait | A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban. |
| Custom | A representative act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group (a habit that a group has widely adopted) |
| Economic Determinism | The doctrine that all social, cultural, political, and intellectual forms are determined by economic factors |
| Folk Culture | Local life style, traditional culture in a small area |
| Habit | A repetitive act that a particular individual performs |
| Independent Inventions | Developments that can be traced back to a specific civilization |
| Innovation Adoption | The diffusion of new ideas |
| Material Culture | The physical objects created by a culture; the buildings, tools, and other artifacts created by the members of a society |
| Non-material culture | A component of culture that consists of the intangible or abstract human creations of society that influence people's behavior (such as taboos, ideas about right & wrong, etc) |
| Norms | Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members |
| Popular culture | Culture that is a product of more developed countries (large, heterogeneous societies); diffuses rapidly through modern communication systems and creates a more uniform landscape. |
| Possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. |
| Sequent Occupance | Succeeding stages of human inhabitation over time on one site |
| Society | An organized group of of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. |
| Syncretism |  Various alterations made to culture traits by new groups to meet their needs |
| Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom. |
| Toponymy | The place name of a region or language. The study of such place names |
| Transculturation |  Two-way flows of culture that reflects an equal echange of culture traits |
| Values | Cultural defined standards that guide the way people assess desirability, goodness, and beauty, and that serve as guidelines for moral living |
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