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the set of learned behaviors and ideas (including beliefs, attitudes,values,and ideals)that are characteristics of a particular society or other social group
culture
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a group of people who occupy a particular territory and speak a common language not generally understood by neighboring peoples.
Society
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commonly shared customs of a group within a society which are central concern of sociologists and increasingly of concern to anthropologists
Subculture
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people who judge other cultures soley in term of their own culutre are and they hold a attitude called
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The anthropological attitude that a society's customs and ideas should be described objectively and understood in the context of that society's problems and opportunities became known as
Cultural relativism
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Social scientists refer to standards or rules about what is acceptable behavior as
Norms
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those that diminish the chances of survival and reproduction are likely to disappear
maladaptive customs
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the customs of a society that enhance survival and reproductive success are
adaptive customs
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process by which cultural elements are borrowed from another society and incorporated into the culture of the recipient group is called (ex mcdonalds in china )
Diffusion
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the changes that occur when different cultural groups come into intensive contact
acculturation
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the most drastic and rapid way a culture can change is as a result of
Revolution
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the massive flow of goods,people,information,and capital across huge areas of the earth's surface
Globalization
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In the aftermath of violent events such as depopulation, relocation,enslavement,and genocide by dominant powers,deprived peoples have created new cultures in a process called
Ehnogenesis
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