Culture Flashcards
(31 cards)
way of life for a group of people who share customs and beliefs.
Culture
skills or ways of doing something
Cultural Traits
technology levels (skills you use) shows how advanced a culture is
human- environment interaction
way of organizing people into smaller groups by task
social structure
parents/children
Nuclear family
several generations
Extended family
Patriarchal
Men who makes decisions
Matriarchal
Women who makes decisions
tell us the important things to a culture
Language
gives people comfort and hope gives values right/wrong
Religion
accepted behavior
Ethics
one god
Monotheism
many gods
Polytheism
movement of customs and ideas to new places
Cultural diffusion
process of accepting, borrowing and changing ideas of a culture
Acculturation
world seems closer due to technology
Global village
need to survive
Basic need
want it but not a need to live
Non-basic needs
system that set up and enforces laws and institutions
Goverment
total of people
Population
the way population is spread out over the earth
Population Distrubution
people who study population, marriage, death and why people live in places
Demographers
most people live in
asia , europe , north america
least people live in
, south america , africa , antartica
