set of values, beliefs, rules and institutions held by a specific group of people
What is culture
100
Ideas, beliefs, customs to which people are emotionally attached
What are values
100
Appropriate ways of speaking, behaving and dressing according to a certain culture
What are manners
100
Ease with which an individual can move up or down the "social ladder" in their culture
What is social mobility
100
departure of highly educated people from one profession, geographic region or nation to another
e.g. Eastern Europe experiences high levels of _______ during early transition to market economies. Economists, engineers, researchers, in all fields fled westward to escape poverty.
What is brain drain
200
detailed knowledge about one's culture that enables one to function successfully and efficiently within it
What is cultural literacy
200
positive or negative feelings and tendencies that individuals harbour toward objects and concepts
What are Attitudes
200
Habits or ways of behaving passed down from generation to generation
What are customs
200
a system of social stratification where people are born into social rankings with no opportunity for social mobility
What is caste system
200
physical features that characterize the surface of a geographic region
What is topography
300
The belief that one's culture/ethnic group is superior to another group's culture
What is ethnocentricity
300
anything that represents a culture's way of life, including gestures, material objects, traditions, and concepts
What is cultural trait
300
the fundamental organization of a culture, including its groups, organizations, its system of social positions, relationships and process by which its resources are distributed and allocated
What is social structure
300
system of social stratification in which personal ability and actions determine social status and mobility
What is class system
300
all the technology in a culture used to manufacture goods and provide services
What is material culture
400
a smaller group of people who share values, beliefs, institutions, etc., within a larger cultural group
What is subculture
400
process by which one culture's traits are spread onto another
What is cultural diffusion
400
two or more people who identify and interact with one another
What is a social group
400
"link" language understood between two parties who speak different native languages
e.g.
Susie from Paris and Mario from Spain communicate in both of their second languages English.
What one culture considers to be "good taste" in art, material objects, expressions, etc.
What is aesthetics
500
the replacement of one culture's traits such as traditions and artifacts, with another culture's traits
e.g. Disneyland Paris fears ______________ as it may replace traditional fictional characters and cartoons with those of American Disney
What is cultural imperialism
500
process of ranking people into layers of the social structure or classes
What is social stratification
500
language communicated through expressions, gestures, physical greetings, etc.
What is body language
500
staffing policy by which the best qualified individuals (regardless of external factors of race, culture, etc.) manage operations abroad