Anthropology Vocabulary Click Quiz

Read the definition given in the hint and select the correct term from among those given.

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