Culture Terms

A smaller cultural group derived from a larger cultural group. Usually having the same or variations of the same beliefs/practices

• Monoculture

• Subculture

• Multiculturalism

• Counter Culture

To refuse or take away someone's right or privilege to do something.

• Stonewall Riots

• Ethnocentrism

• Disenfranchise

• Ethnocentrism

A reaction to a police raid on a location central to the gay community (The Stonewall Inn). It was an uprising from the LGBTQ+ community to declare the raid was discriminatory.

• The Stonewall Riots

• Multiculturalism

• Disenfranchise

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Multiple cultures and ethnic groups tied into one society.

• Social Class

• Multiculturalism

• Mainstream Culture

• Cultural Diffusion

Refers to when people from different cultures and ethnic groups come together and mix in a society

• Multiculturalism

• Cultural Diffusion

• Counter Culture

• Melting pot

A societal separation based on social and economic standing.

• Eurocentrism

• High Culture

• Social Class

• Disenfranchise

Standards of the society. Expectations of the society from the people and the social groups. They are like the unwritten rules that the society has.

• Low Culture

• Cultural Norms

• Ethnocentrism

• Mainstream Culture

The spreading of certain cultural practices or traditions around to other people and places.

• Counter Culture

• Multiculturalism

• Cultural Diffusion

• Cultural Lag

A culture with values and morals that counter ones of established society norms.

• Cultural Norms

• Sub Culture

• High Culture

• Counter Culture

Things that have a mass appeal to a large amount of people AKA "pop culture"

• Low Culture

• High Culture

• Counter Culture

• Sub Culture