Culture + cultural traits
Culture
The shared beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies of a society.
Centrifugal Forces
A force that divides or separates a group of people
Artifacts
Visible, physical objects created by a culture. Objects made by human beings
EX: specific clothing pieces
Centripetal forces
A force that brings a group together
Sociofacts
The ways in which a society behaves and organizes institutions
EX: School, family government, religion
Ethnocentrism
Disliking and believing that you are better than another ethnicity
Mentifacts
The ideas, beliefs, values and knowledge of a culture. EX: Religious beliefs (NOT RELIGION), folklore, taboos
dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries
Cultural Trait
Visible and invisible attributes that combine to make up a group’s culture.
Mentifacts
Artifacts
Sociofacts
Cultural Relativism
An unbiased way of viewing another culture, the goal of this is to promote understanding of cultural practices that are not typically part of one’s own culture. Leads to the view that no one culture is superior to another culture when compared.