Culture Vocab Flashcards
the body of material traits, customary beliefs, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
Culture.
A repetitive act that a particular individual performs, such as wearing jeans to class everyday.
habit
A repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group.
Custom
traditionally practiced by small groups living in isolated rural areas
Folk Culture
found in large, diverse societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Popular Culture.
the aspect of social reality grounded in the objects and architecture that surround
Material Culture.
refers to the nonphysical ideas that people have about their culture, including beliefs, values, rules, norms, morals, language, organizations and institutions.
Nonmaterial culture.
feeling of belonging to a group
Cultural identity
A restriction on behavior imposed by religious law or social custom
Taboo
music that originates in traditional popular culture or that is written in such a style. Folk music is typically of unknown authorship and is typically of unknown authorship and is transmitted orally from generation 2 generation.
Folk Music
a term used in fields of geography, ecology, and heritage studies to describe a symbiosis of human activity and environment.
Cultural Landscape
assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one
Acculturation
the traditional beliefs, customs and stories of a community passed through the generations by word of mouth.
Folklore
process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society’s majority group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
Assimilation
a geographic area with which ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity and economic activity,
Ethnic Enclave
