Cultural Concepts Flashcards

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Culture

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The shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by a society.

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Cultural traits

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Include such things as food preferences, architecture, and land use.

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Cultural relativism

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Refers to not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal.

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Ethnocentrism

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When one uses his/her own culture as the center and evaluates other cultures based on it.

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Cultural landscapes

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Combinations of physical features, agricultural and industrial practices, and expressions of culture.

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Ethnic neighborhoods

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Neighborhoods situated in a larger city, constructed by or comprised of local culture.

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Local culture

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Group of people in a place who see themselves as a community, sharing customs and traits.

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Ethnicity

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Affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture.

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Sense of place

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State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion.

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Placelessness

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Loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.