WMS Spartan Expressing Identity Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ACCULTURATION | the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture |
| ACHIEVEMENTS | Accomplishments in art, literature, science, math, technology, law, education, etc... |
| BEHAVIOR | The activities exhibited by human beings and influenced by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics, authority, rapport, persuasion, coercion and/or genetics. |
| BELIEFS | Something that someone accepts as true even if he or she can't prove it. |
| CIVILIZATION | A society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) |
| CLAN | Group of people related by blood or marriage |
| CULTURE | Attitudes, beliefs and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization |
| CULTURE CLASH | Conflict arising from the interaction of people with different cultural values |
| CULTURAL TRAIT | A single element of normal practice in a culture (eg, wearing a turban). The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture. |
| CUSTOM | Accepted or habitual practice, the frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act. |
| DESCENDANTS | All of the offspring of a given person - children, grandchildren, and continuing generations |
| DIALECT | A regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation; also a form of a language spoken by members of a particular social class or profession |
| DIFFUSION | the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another |
| DIVERSITY | difference, variety; a condition of having many different types or forms |
| ECONOMY | MAKING, BUYING, SELLING, TRADING - the system of production, distribution and consumption |
| ETHNIC GROUP | people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture |
| ETHNOCENTRISM | belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group |
| EXTENDED FAMILY | Closely related people of several generations such as brother sisters parents uncles aunts grandperent and great grandparents |
| FOLKWAYS | Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture. |
| GAFFE | a clumsy social error; a faux pas |
| GEOGRAPHY | the study of the earth's surface, climate, continents, countries, peoples, industries, and products. |
| GENDER ROLES | Expectations about what is appropriate behavior for each sex. |
| LAWS | rules of conduct enforced by government |
| MONOTHEISM | belief in a single God |
| MORES | accepted standards and customs of a social group |
| NATIONALISM | Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it. The belief that your national culture and interests are superior to any other. |
| NORM | A standard or model or pattern seen as typical: wearing jeans is the norm in America. |
| POLITICS | the study of government of states and other political units |
| POLYTHEISM | belief in multiple Gods |
| PREJUDICE | A preconceived belief or opinion. A negative attitude formed toward an individual or group without sufficient experience with the person or group |
| RACE | people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock |
| RELIGION | Beliefs about the cause, nature and purpose of the universe. |
| SOCIALIZATION | The process of learning the rules of behavior of the culture within which an individual is born and will live |
| SOCIAL STRUCTURE | The ways in which people within a culture are organized into smaller groups. |
| STEREOTYPE | A commonly-held belief about a group of people |
| SUBCULTURE | A group within a group. A social group within a culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs |
| TECHNOLOGY | Tools, machines and methods used to make products, save time or in some way improve people's lives. |
| TRADITIONS | Practices or ideas that are continuous or associated with the past, customs that survive from one generation to the next |
| VALUES | Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something) |
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