Culture Vocabulary

accepted standards and customs of a social group

• mores

• diversity

• acculturation

behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture

• taboos

• ethnicity

• tenet

Enforceable rules of conduct in a society

• demography

• laws

• relocation diffusion

the social process of absorbing one cultural group into

harmony with another

• assimilation

• cultural hearth

• distribution

the spread of cultural elements from one society to another

• cultural diffusion

• acculturation

• tolerance

general cultural traits that exist in all cultures

• cultural universals

• taboos

• tenet

the specific practices that distinguish cultures from one

another

• cultural particulars

• mores

• diffusion

Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.

• ethnocentrism

• assimilation

• demography

the practice of judging a culture by its own standards

• cultural relativism

• folkways

• hierarchical diffusion

difference, variety; a condition of having many different

types of forms

• diversity

• tolerance

• indigenous religion