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Anthropology Vocabulary Click Quiz
Read the definition given in the hint and select the correct term from among those given.
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Societal status that one receives at birth.
A religious group that follows a prophet and does not adhere to the values of their larger society.
The scientific study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them.
A rigid societal hierarchy in which one’s ascribed status indicates what rights and privileges they can enjoy and whom they can socialize with.
A group’s shared behavior and beliefs that are learned, patterned, adaptive, and symbolic.
The process by which one learns the rules, norms, and expectations of their society by interacting with peers.
A societal status that one acquires by virtue of having demonstrated positive or negative behaviors.
A smaller group within a larger culture that shares their own cultural attributes.
Unofficial law that is part of the cultural tradition and upheld as strictly as a written law.
The scientific study of a particular culture.
A large band led by a headsman and joined by common interest and need.
A culture primarily defined by kinship and family, not social hierarchy.
One society’s attempt to kill all members of a particular culture to cause culture death.
Distress caused by an individual’s inability to quickly adapt to a new culture, or by a large discrepancy between one’s cultural values and their surrounding environment.
The process that occurs when one culture adopts traits and traditions from another culture without fully adopting the other culture.
The process by which a smaller, minority culture adopts the cultural attributes of a larger, majority culture, effectively blending in.
The process of an individual adopting a new culture.
The belief that one’s culture is superior to others.
A society run by a select group of wealthy individuals.
A system in which one culture lays claim to foreign land and then represses and asserts domination over the native culture.
Becoming acclimated to one’s native culture through observation, experience and instruction.
Behaviors that are deemed appropriate and typical by society.
Behavior that deviates from a culture’s norms and accepted values.
Formative events that occur at transition points in one’s life.
Recurring traditions in a society that reinforce social norms.
acculturation
achieved status
ascribed status
assimilation
band
caste system
colonialism
common law
crime
cult
culture
culture shock
enculturation
ethnocentrism
ethnography
ethnology
genocide
norms
oligarchy
rites of passage
rituals
socialization
subculture
transculturation
tribe
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