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| Culture | Language, religious beliefs, values, customs, and other ways of life shared by a group of people. |
| Cultural Trait | A behavioral characteristic of people, such as language, skill, or custom, passed from one generation to another. |
| Technology | Tools and the skills that people need to use them; the practical use of scientific skills, especially in industry. |
| Cultural Landscape | A landscape that has been changed by human beings and that reflects their culture. |
| Agriculture | Farming; includes growing crops and raising livestock. |
| Social Structure | The ways in which people within a culture are organized into smaller groups; each smaller group has its own particular tasks. |
| Nuclear Family | A family unit that includes a Mother, father, and their children. |
| Extended Family | A family unit that may include parents, children, grandpartents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives, often living with or near each other. |
| Ethics | The standard or code of moral behavior that distinguishes between right and wrong for a particular person, religion, goup, profession and so on. |
| Economy | A system for producing, distributing, consuming, and owning goods, services, and wealth |
| Cultural Diffusion | The movement of customs and ideas from one culture to another. |
| Producer | A person who makes products that are used by other people. |
| Goods | Products that are made to be sold; cars, baskets, computers, and paper are all examples. |
| Services | Work done or duties performed for other people, such as the work of a doctor or of a television repair person. |
| Consumer | A person who buys goods and services. |
| Capitalism | An economic system in which people are privately owned companies own both basic and non-basic business and industires. |
| Socialism | An economic system in which the government owns most basic industires, such as transportation, communications, and banking; non-basic industires are privately owned. |
| Acculturation | The process of acceptiong, borrowing, and exchanging ideas and traits among cultures. |
| Communism | A theory of government in which property such as farms and factories is owned by the governement for the benefit of all citizens; a political system in which the central government controls all aspects of citizens' lives. |
| Government | The system that established and enforces the laws and institution of a society; some governments are controlled by a few peole, and others are controlled by many. |
| Direct Democracy | A system of government in which the people participate directly in decision making. |
| Monarchy | A system of authoritarian governemtn headed by a monarch, usually a king or queen, who inherits the throne by birth |
| Constitution | A set of laws that defines and limits government's power. |
| Dictator | A ruler who has complete power over a country. |
| Representative Democracy | A system of government in which the people elect representatives to run the affairs of the country. |
