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1. Cultural adjustments to material conditions, such as customs, beliefs, pattern of communication, and ways of using material objects.

3. The totality of learned, socially transmitted behavior.

4. General practices found in every culture.

8. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life are superior to all others.

9. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that help to maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests.

10. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.

11. The use of two or more languages in workplaces or educational facilities and the treatment of each language as equally legitimate.

12. The feeling of surprise and disorientation when people witness cultural practiced different from their own.

13. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives

15. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.

16. The belief that the products, styles, or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.

17. Norms deemed highly necessary to a society

18. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.

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2. The effort to revise school and college curricula to give greater emphasis to the contributions and experiences of African Americans, other racial and ethnic minorities, women, and nonwestern peoples.

3. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture..

5. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.

6. The study of African people's experiences worldwide..

7. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication. .

12. A period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.

14. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory, are relatively independent of the people outside it, and participate in a common culture.