Unit 3 Culture

The shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by the members of a society that are not the result of biological inheritance (socially constructed)

• culture

• cultural relativism

• race

• cultural landscape

a group of people who share a common cultural identity

-Hispanic

-German

-Italian

-Hmong

-Japanese

• Ethnicity

• Race

• ethnocentrism

• cultural relativism

the historical classification that is used to categorize human populations with shared physical traits (not culture)

- American Indian or Alaska Native

- Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

- Black or African American

- White

- Asian

• culture

• ethnicity

• race

• nationality

a single attribute of a culture, such as food preferences, architecture, and land use

could be material such as: clothing

food

literature/art

houses/public buildings

could be non material:

language/religion

education systems

government/law systems

music/holidays

• Cultural diffusion

• cultural relativism

• ethnocentrism

• Cultural trait

The judging another culture based on the values of one’s own culture (language, religion, customs)

• racism

• ethnocentrism

• cultural relativism

• cultural trait

the idea that a person’s beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person’s own

culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another

• cultural relativism

• ethnocentrism

• racism

• centrifugal forces

the combination of physical features, agricultural and industrial practices, religious and linguistic characteristics, sequent

occupancy, traditional and postmodern architecture, and land use patterns

• sequent occupance

• ethnic neighborhood

• indigenous communities:

• cultural landscape

the combined imprint on an area when it has been inhabited by a succession of cultures

e.g. buildings, transportation systems, farms, irrigation, recreation facilities

e.g. The Great Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt

• gender role

• ethnic neighborhood:

• sequent occupance

• indigenous communities

the original settlers of an area (pre-invasion/colonialism) who have retained their culture apart from

the colonizers

e.g. Native Americans, First Nations, Aborigines

• sense of place

• ethnic neighborhood:

• indigenous communities:

• gendered spaces

an area within a city occupied by a distinctive minority culture

e.g. Little Italy in NYC

• indigenous communities

• ethnic neighborhood

• gendered spaces

• sequent occupance: