FLASHCARD DATA FOR HUMAN CULTURE.docVIP

FLASHCARD DATA FOR HUMAN CULTURE Topic 1: What is Culture? 1. The full range of learned human behavior patterns. culture 2. That complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. Edward Tylor’s definition of culture 3. The term for a regional, social, or ethnic group that is distinguishable from other groups in a society.? Members of such groups often share a common identity, food tradition, dialect or language, and other cultural traits that come from their common ancestral background and experience. sub-culture 4. The kinds of societies that are most likely to have sub-cultures. complex, diverse societies, such as the U.S. and Canada, in which people have come from many different parts of the world 5. The term for cultural traits that are shared by all of humanity collectively.? Examples of such general traits are communicating with a verbal language, using age and gender to classify people, and raising children in some sort of family setting. cultural universals 6. A group of interacting organisms.? In the case of humans, it would be a group of people who directly or indirectly interact with each other.? People in such human groups generally perceive that their group as being distinct from others in terms of shared traditions and expectations. society Topic 2: Characteristics of Culture 1. When the first humans evolved. (Hint: the answer is in terms of years ago.) about 2.5 million years ago 2. Where the first humans evolved in terms of geographic and climatic regions. tropical and subtropical parts of East and South Africa 3. A behavior, strategy, or technique for obtaining food and surviving in a particular environment.? For humans, culture is the most important behavior of this sort. It gives us a selective advantage in the competition for survival with other life forms. adaptive mechanism 4. The movement of cultural traits and ideas fr