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| Set of values, beliefs, rules, and institutions held by a sepcific group of people. |
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| Belief that one's own ethnic group or culture is superior to that of others. |
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| Detailed knowledge about a culture that enables a person to function effectively within it. |
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| A group of people who share a unique way of life iwthin a larger, dominant culture. |
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| What a culture considers "good taste" in the arts, the imagery evoked by certain expressions, and the symbolism of certain colors. |
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| Ideas, beliefs, and customs to which people are emotionally attached. |
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| Positive or negative evaluations, feelings, and tendencies that individuals harbor toward objects or concepts. |
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| Anything that represents a culture's way of life, including gestures, material objects, traditions, and concepts. |
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| Process whereby cultural traits spread from one culture to another. |
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| Replacement of one culture's traditions, folk heroes, and artifacts with substitutes from another. |
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| Appropriate ways of behaving, speaking, and dressing in a culture. |
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| Habits or ways of behaving in specific circumstances that are passed down through generations in a culture. |
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| Behavior, often dating back several generations, that is practiced by a homogeneous group of people. |
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| Behavior shared by a heterogeneous group or by several groups. |
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| A culture's fundamental organization, including its groups and institutions, its system of social positions and their relationships, and the process by which its resources are distributed. |
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| Collection of two or more people who identify and interact with one another. |
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| Process of ranking people into social layers or classes. |
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| Ease with which individuals can move up or down a culture's "social ladder." |
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| System of social stratification in which people are born into a social ranking, or caste, with no opportunity for social mobility. |
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| System of social stratification in which personal ability and actions determine social status and mobility. |
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| System of conveying thoughts, feelings, knowledge, and information through speech, actions, and writing. |
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| Third or "link" language that is understood by two parties who speak different native languages. |
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| Language communicated through unspoken cues, including hand gestures, facial expressions, physical greetings, eye contact, and the manipulation of personal space. |
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| Departure of highly educated people from one profession, geographic region, or nation to another. |
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| All the physical features that characterize the surface of a geographic region. |
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| All the technology used in a culture to manufacture goods and provide services. |
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| Kluckhohn-Strodtbeck Framework |
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| Framework for studying cultural differences along six dimensions, such as focus on past or future events and belief in individual or group responsibility for personal well-being. |
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| Framework for studying cultural differences along four dimensions, such as individualism versus collectivism and equality versus inequality. |
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