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What is Culture?
Social Groups, Lang, Religion
Economic Systems
Political Systems
Cultural Change
100
What is a way of life for a group of people?
Culture
100
What is a way of organizing people into smaller groups in a culture?
Social Structure
100
What is a system for producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services?
Economy
100
What is the system that sets up the laws for a society?
Government
100
What is the movement of customs and ideas?
Cultural Diffusion
200
What are the changes to a group's environment and the place that they live?
Cultural Landscape
200
What is the basic unit of a culture?
A family (nuclear)
200
Who are people that buy and use goods and services
Consumers
200
What is the government where everyone participated in the everyday workings of the government?
Direct Democracy
200
What is the accepting, borrowing, and exchanging of ideas called?
Acculturation
300
What is the activity of growing crops, that changed how people lived their lives?
Agriculture
300
What is it called when grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, or other relatives live with their family?
Extended Family
300
What is the difference between goods and services
Goods are things you can go out and buy, services are things people are trained to do (doctors, dentists, etc)
300
What is the government where a king or queen makes the laws?
Monarchy
300
What does the "global village" mean?
It means the world is connected through technology and ideas spread faster than ever
400
A particular group's skills, customs, or ways of doing things are called
Cultural Traits
400
Why is language important to a society?
To communicate and teach their culture to their children
400
What is the economic system where the government owns the basic businesses and runs them for the good of society
Socialism
400
What is the government where one person is in charge of the government and makes the laws?
Dictatorship
400
What is one consequence of the advancement of technology on cultures?
Some cultures are disappearing and people do not want to lose their cultures to others
500
Name two of the four stages of the development of a culture
Invention of tools, the discovery of fire, the growth of agriculture, and writing
500
Why is religion important to a culture?
It is the values that people think are important and gives us the way to behave and act
500
What is the economic system where the government owns all of the businesses and determine what is made
Communism
500
Which government has people elect (vote) people in office to vote on the everday workings of the government?
Representative Democracy
500
Name two of the ways cultures can change
Technology, sharing of ideas, a change in the environment, new ideas