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What is Culture?
the total knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared and passed on by the members of a group
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What is a society?
group that shares a geographic region, sense of identity and culture
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Ethnic Group
group that shares language, customs, and common heritage
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How do societies form?
- individual-one person
- Family-made up of individuals
- Clan-made up of families
- tribe-made up of clans
- tribes grow until they become a society
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basic human needs
- food
- water
- oxygenShelter and clothing(not actual needs)
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invention
creating something new
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innovation
taking something already made and making it better
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Diffusion
the spreading of goods, ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior
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Cultural hearth
site of innovation in which ideas, materials, and technology diffuse to many cultures
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Acculturation
when a society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation
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language
- allows people within a community to communicate
- --one of the most important aspects of a culture
- --helps establish cultural identity
- --can also divide people
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language families
- 3,000-6500 languages exist and they are grouped based on similarities
- --english, russian, hindi, and greek all came from indo european faminy
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