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biological determinism
The idea that biologically (genetically) inhereted differences between populations are important influences on cultural differences between them.
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cultural knowledge
Information, skills, attitudes, conceptions, beliefs, values and other mental components of culture that people socially learn during enculturation.
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cultural integration
The intterrelationships among the various components (elements, subsystems) of a cultural system.
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culture
The socially learned knowledge and patterns of behaviour shared by some group of people.
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cultural identity
The cultural tradition a group of people recognize as their own; the shared customs and beliefs that define how a group sees iteslf as distinctive.
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classifications of reality (cultural constructions of reality)
Ways in which the members of a culture divide up the natural and social world into categories, usually linguistically encoded.
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cultural determinism
The notion that the beliefs and behaviours of individuals are largely programmed by their culture.
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cultural universals
Elements of culture that exist in all known human groups or societies.
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enculturation (socialization)
The transmission (by means of social learning) of cultural knowledge to the next generation.
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norms
Shared ideals and/or expectations about how certain people out to act in given situations.
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patterns of behaviour
Within a single culture, the behaviour that most people perform when they are in certain culturally defined situations.
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roles
Rights and duties that individuals assume because of their percieved personal identity or membership in a social group. Also, the social and/or economical position a field researcher defines for him- or herself in the community being studied.
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society
A territorially distinct and largely self-perpetuating group whose members have a sense of collective identitiy and who share a common language and culture.
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subculture
Cultural differences characteristic of members of various ethnic groups, regions, religions, and so forth within a single society or country.
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symbols
Objects, behaviours, sound combinations, and other phenomena whose culturally defined meanings have no necessary relationship to their inherent physical qualities.
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values
Shared ideas or standards about the worthwhileness of goals and lifestyles.
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worldview
The way people interpret reality and events, including how they see themselves relating to the world around them.
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