Quiz: 3.1 Introduction to Culture

a culture group that constitutes the original inhabitants of a territory, distinct from the dominant national culture, which is often derived from colonial occupation.

• indigenous culture

• culture hearths

• folk culture

• cultural landscape

mores so strong that their violation is considered to be extremely offensive and even unmentionable

• mores

• values

• taboos

• folkways

The educational and political institutions, religious organizations, family structure, etc. that make up the nonmaterial aspects of a culture

• indigenous culture

• sociofacts

• mentifacts

• none of these

Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.

• nonmaterial culture

• cultural landscape

• culture

• folk culture

Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

• values

• structure

• ethics

• culture

Individual culture traits of the ideological subsystem, such as an idea.

• taboos

• culture hearths

• mentifacts

• sociofacts

The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.

• cultural landscape

• folk culture

• culture hearths

• nonmaterial culture

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

• popular culture

• material culture

• folk culture

• traditional culture

customs and ways of life handed down from ancestors

• cultural landscape

• traditional culture

• popular culture

• folk culture

early centers of civilization whose ideas and practices spread to surrounding areas

• cultural diffusion

• folk culture

• cultural landscape

• culture hearths