World Cultures Final Exam Terms
World Culture's Final Exam Terms
Intro to the World
1. Cultural Conflict clash of different ways of life over scarce resources, religion, race, land, oil, water, power, etc
2. Cultural Relativism judge culture on their own standards and values
3. Culturally different one culture different from every other culture
4. Culture total way of life of someone
5. Diffusion mixing of different cultures from place to place
6. Ethnocentrism belief that ones own culture is superior to other's: judge other's by your own standards
7. Globalization process by which countries become increasingly interconnected
8. International Date Line line that is used by geographers that divides the world into two day's
9. Interdependence mutual dependence of countries
10. Kalahari Bushmen natives of Africa who tried to keep their distance from the world and traditions became corrupt with a simple coke bottle
11. L.A.S.S. learned adaptive symbolic shared: this is the way culture's would be able to mix
12. Norms expectations of behavior
13. Prime Meridian - 0° longitude on a globe, located in Greenwich, England
14. Relative location natural occurring physical features used to describe a location on the map if not given the exact location
15. Socialization taught about a culture either or their own or another's
16. Standard of living depends on the effort you put into how you want to live
17. Symbols represent a certain topic, feeling, idea etc
18. Time zones divides up the globe depending on the number of hours they are away from Greenwich
19. Equator Along the x-axis, or meaning Latitude
20. Universally Similar meaning that every culture has similar foods, religions, clothes, language, housing, music, sports, and gestures
21. Values beliefs about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable
North America
1. Animism belief that everything has a spirit no matter if it is living or if it is not
2.
Intro to the World
1. Cultural Conflict clash of different ways of life over scarce resources, religion, race, land, oil, water, power, etc
2. Cultural Relativism judge culture on their own standards and values
3. Culturally different one culture different from every other culture
4. Culture total way of life of someone
5. Diffusion mixing of different cultures from place to place
6. Ethnocentrism belief that ones own culture is superior to other's: judge other's by your own standards
7. Globalization process by which countries become increasingly interconnected
8. International Date Line line that is used by geographers that divides the world into two day's
9. Interdependence mutual dependence of countries
10. Kalahari Bushmen natives of Africa who tried to keep their distance from the world and traditions became corrupt with a simple coke bottle
11. L.A.S.S. learned adaptive symbolic shared: this is the way culture's would be able to mix
12. Norms expectations of behavior
13. Prime Meridian - 0° longitude on a globe, located in Greenwich, England
14. Relative location natural occurring physical features used to describe a location on the map if not given the exact location
15. Socialization taught about a culture either or their own or another's
16. Standard of living depends on the effort you put into how you want to live
17. Symbols represent a certain topic, feeling, idea etc
18. Time zones divides up the globe depending on the number of hours they are away from Greenwich
19. Equator Along the x-axis, or meaning Latitude
20. Universally Similar meaning that every culture has similar foods, religions, clothes, language, housing, music, sports, and gestures
21. Values beliefs about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable
North America
1. Animism belief that everything has a spirit no matter if it is living or if it is not
2.