Table of Contents
- 1 What is the total knowledge shared attitudes and behaviors of members of a specific group of people?
- 2 What term means knowledge attitudes and behaviors shared by and passed on by members of a group?
- 3 What is it called when one society adopts a custom from another society?
- 4 What is the term used to refer to a group who share language customs and common heritage?
- 5 What is culture quizlet?
- 6 What is the transfer of values and customs from one group to another?
culture. The total of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by members of a group. society.
What is the shared attitudes knowledge and behaviors of a group?
Definitions of Culture ” . . . the sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by members of a society.” ” . . . the learned patterns of thought and behavior characteristic of a population or society.”
culture. the total of knowledge , attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by the members of a specific group.
What term is the total knowledge attitudes behavior values and etc that are shared by a group of people and are passed on to future members?
culture
A culture is a way of life of a group of people–the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. Culture is symbolic communication.
What is it called when one society adopts a custom from another society?
culture. The spread of ideas and customs from one society to another is called. diffusion. If the members of one society decide to adopt a custom that they observe in another society this process is called. acculturation.
Do demographers subtract the mortality rate from the fertility rate?
To calculate the RNI, demographers subtract the death rate (number of deaths per 1,000 people/year) from the birth rate (number of birth per 1,000 people/year) and convert the answer to a percentage.
An ethnic group is a group of people who share a common heritage, culture, and/or language; in the U.S., ethnicity often refers to race.
Which term refers to the spread of ideas innovations and inventions and patterns of behavior?
Diffusion. The spread of ideas, inventions, of patterns of behavior.
What is culture quizlet?
Culture. A set of learned values, beliefs, customs and practices that are shared by a group and are passed from one generation to another.
What is it called when a group adopts the language culture and customs of a different group of people in order to fit in?
assimilation. the absorption of an individual or minority group of people into another society or group. This is achieved by learning and adopting the cultural traditions of the society to which assimilation occurs.
What is the transfer of values and customs from one group to another?
The definition of acculturation is the transfer of values and customs from one group to another.
What is crude fertility rate?
Definition: The ratio between the number of live births in a population during a given year and the total mid-year population for the same year, usually multiplied by 1,000.