Chapter 3 Flashcards
(11 cards)
Kinship
Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society’s population
Family
Cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite
Marriage
Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society’s population
Extended family
Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society
Nuclear
Perspective recognizing the cultural diversity in the United States and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions
Eurocentrism
The dominance of European cultural patterns
Afrocentrism
Emphasizing and promoting African cultural patterns
Cultural integration
Close relationships among various elements of a cultural system
Cultural relativism
Practice of judging another culture by its own standards
Cultural universals
Traits that are part of every known culture
Sociobiology
Theoretical approach that explores ways in which human biology affects how we create culture