Global Connections

Includes definitions from unit 1

Culture

Everything people of a society posses and beleive

matirial culture

the things people of past and present have invented, discovered, created, or adapted to fulfill human needs.

Non-material culture

Forms the basis for human behavior, morals, explanations for the creation of the world/ ideas about humans and god

Norms

Rules or behaviors (non-material)

Folkways

approved ways of doing something politely/with good judgment in a society

Mores

very serious rules of conduct, usually written into laws

Taboos

certain things in society that are believed to be so terrible that they must never be done

invention

a VERY new idea about how something can be done/made

innovation

the development of something new or original from already existing things

cultural diffusion

when Ideas from different cultured interact with and influence another

Ethnocentrism

Belief that your culture or group is better than another.