Big Ideas
Aspects of Culture
Economy and the Political system
Development of Culture
Vocabulary
100
This piece of clothing is an example of American acculturation, and is also the French word for cotton pants.
What are jeans?
100
Because it is the main way people communicate.
Why is language important?
100
People who buy goods and services.
What are consumers?
100
It helps people understand each other and it is their way of life.
Why is culture important?
100
A system for producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services.
What is economy?
200
Cultural traits.
What is the term for a particular group's individual skills, customs, and ways of doing things?
200
Standard accepted behavior.
What are ethics?
200
A type of government where the central government owns all the property and controls all aspects of the citizens' lives.
What is communism?
200
When people began to farm food.
What is the agricultural revolution?
200
The way of life of a group of people with similar beliefs and customs.
What is culture?
300
This category of business helps people by getting them essential materials.
What are basic businesses?
300
Beliefs of a certain group of people.
What is religion?
300
Because it has only one overpowering leader.
Why is dictatorship wrong?
300
The movement of customs and ideas.
What is cultural diffusion?
300
Tools and the skills needed to use them.
What is technology?
400
Because once cultures are gone, they are forgotten.
Why can't we bring back lost cultures?
400
How you are unofficially ranked.
What are social classes?
400
The three basic political systems of government.
What are socialism, capitalism and communism?
400
People and their way of life in and around the environment.
What is environmental culture?
400
A name for a basic unit of family.
What is a nuclear family?
500
The advancement of the tools we use.
What is technological change?
500
If the size of the family changes so does their way of life.
What is the relationship between families and culture?
500
A kind of economic system that is impossible.
What is a pure economic system?
500
It changes with the environment, people, goods, and new ideas.
How does culture change?
500
The process of accepting, borrowing, and exchanging ideas.
What is acculturation?
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