Unit 3 - Cultural Processes

the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time

• Culture

• Race

• Ethnicity

set of practices, beliefs, and objects that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social system.

• Pop Culture

• Folk Culture

• Assimilation

a culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

• Pop Culture

• Folk/Ethnic Culture

• Acculturation

evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.

• Assimilation

• Acculturation

• Ethnocentricism

something that is considered inappropriate within a cultural group

• Taboo

• Unruly

• Tattoo

• Unsavory

the gathering of various populations based on ethnicity, economics, or religion

• Ethnocentrism

• Acculturation

• Ethnic Clustering

• Ethnic Combination

the adoption of the ways of another culture: becoming part of a different society, country, etc.

• Acculturation

• Ethnocentrism

• Alliteration

• Assimilation

a symbiosis of human activity, geography, and the environment that impacts the development of culture

• Cultural Heritage

• Cultural Philosophy

• Cultural Landscape

• Cultural Production

made up of the same kind of people or things

• Heterogeneous

• Homogenous

• Assimilation

any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry

• Ethnicity

• Assimilation

• Race