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Culture Terms

Culture Terms. Mr. Lovejoy and Mrs. Lott-Jones. Anthropology. The study of people, their place in society, their culture, and their way of life. Cultural Landscape. How people’s culture effects and imprints their surroundings. Example:.

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Culture Terms

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  1. Culture Terms Mr. Lovejoy and Mrs. Lott-Jones

  2. Anthropology • The study of people, their place in society, their culture, and their way of life.

  3. Cultural Landscape • How people’s culture effects and imprints their surroundings.

  4. Example: • Buildings, cars, technology, are all examples of our cultural landscape. If all Americans were gone from the Earth, an anthropologist could look at what we left behind, the impression we left on the Earth.

  5. Cultural Diffusion • A culture spreads out from its point of origin to a wider area.

  6. Example: • Buddhism began in Nepal and spread to India, China, United States, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Mongolia.

  7. Subculture • A group within society with its own customs and beliefs.

  8. Example: • Southern United States, a different dialect, different food traditions, slower pace of life.

  9. Acculturation • When one culture is influenced and changed by another culture (sometimes by force).

  10. Example: • European Americans forced Native Americans to give up their culture • Immigrant acculturates

  11. More than one culture lives side by side. Cultural Pluralism

  12. NYC has many cultures like Little Italy, Chinatown, etc… Example:

  13. Ethnocentrism • Judging another culture by the standards of your own culture.

  14. Xenophobia • Fear of foreigners.

  15. Three Things that can Cause Culture to Change: • technology • environmental changes • new ideas

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