Cultures Unit Vocabulary

refers collectively to all of the elements that characterize the way of life shared by a group of people

• culture

• cultural landscape

• cultural diffusion

• monarchy

crop or animal farming

• producers

• consumers

• cultural landscape

• agriculture

a family unit that may include parents, children, grandparents, adn other family members that often live with or near each other

• nuclear family

• extended family

• social structure

• socialism

an economic system in which the government owns most basic industries such as transportation, power, communications, banking and health, but non-basic businesses are privately owned

• capitalism

• direct democracy

• socialism

• dictatorship

products that are made to be sold

• agriculture

• technology

• goods

• economy

people who buy goods and services

• producers

• monarchs

• consumers

• dictators

a system for producing, distributing, consuming, and owning goods, services, and wealth

• economy

• social structure

• socialism

• capitalism

behaviors that are characteristic of a group of people such as language, skills, or customs, that are passed on from one generation to the next

• cultural diffusion

• cultural traits

• universal cultures

• cultural landscape

work done or duties performed for other people

• consumers

• acculturation

• monarchy

• services

a system of government in which the people elect representatives to run the affairs of the country

• dictatorship

• monarchy

• direct democracy

• representative democracy