Chapter 8

It is constructed from the entire spectrum of human actions and them material circumstances of people in societies as they attempt to create order, meaning, and value.

The position that behavior in a particular culture should not be judged by the standards of another culture

the attempt to differentiate social behavior on the basis of biological and genetic endowment

labeling people who fall outside of your own group as abnormal, inferior, or marginal

term may people use to describe contemprorary culture

is the dominant idea about the way things are and should work

they have exposed our tendency to elevate our own ethnic group and its social and cultural procwsses over others.

is something, verbal or nonverbal, that comes to stand for something else, example dog

is an idea of reality, a "concept of nature, of self, of society

is the "tone, character, and quality of people's life, ist moral and aesthetic style and mood

culture is not statis;it is adapted, modified, and changed through interactions over time

over meaning can easily arise

was originally used to bring attention to the way of life developed by poor people to adapt to the difficult circumstances of their lives

a way thinking about culture that recognizes the relationship and mutual influences among structures of society and culture, the impact of history, and the nature and impact of human actions

the dominance of a particular way of seeing the world

asserts that pepopel are not simply puppets, the pawns of history and structure; people are also active participants capable of exercisison their will to shape their lives

shared ways of perceiving reality and shared conclusions drawn from lived experience, and organized body of cultural bound beliefs that memebers of a a community of society believe to be second nature, plain, obvious, adn self-evident

cultural practices, come into being and persist as solutions to problems of living

is a process of handing dowm fromone generation to another particular cultural beliefs and practices

is the process in which the cultural uniqueness of the minority group is abondoned, and it memebers try to blend invisbly into the dominant culture

is more common that assimilation in multicultual, multiethnic society in the United States

involves a nonmajority group or member mastering both the dominant culture and his or her own

is first and foremost a system of social identity

is how ethnic group define themselves and maintain meaning for living individually and as a group

is a dirty phrase among people in the United States who generally believe that any class differences