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| 226011254 | culture | the specialized behavioral patterns, understandings, adaptations, and social systems that summarize a group of people's learned way of life. | |
| 226011255 | artifact | the objects, tools, or instruments that enable us to feed, clothe, house, defend, transport, and amuse ourselves. | |
| 226011256 | carrying capacity | the number of persons supportable within a given area by the technologies at their disposal | |
| 226011257 | cultural convergence | the sharing of technologies, organizational structures, and even cultural traits and artifacts that is so evident among widely separated societies in a modern world | |
| 226011258 | cultural divergence | the likelihood or tendency for cultures to become increasingly dissimilar with the passage of time | |
| 226011259 | cultural ecology | the study of the relationship between a culture group and the natural environment it occupies | |
| 226011260 | cultural landscape | the earth' surface as modifies by human action as the tangible physical record of a given culture | |
| 226011261 | cultural integration | the interlocking nature of all aspects of a culture | |
| 226011262 | cultural system | broader generalization than a cultural complex and refers to the collection of interacting cultural traits and cultural complexes that are shared by a group within a particular territory | |
| 226011263 | culture complex | individual culture traits that are functionally interrelated | |
| 226011264 | culture hearth | used to describe such centers of innovation and invention from which key culture traits and elements moved to exert an influence on the surrounding regions | |
| 226011265 | culture realm | a set of culture regions showing related culture complexes and landscapes that are grouped | |
| 226011266 | culture region | a portion of the earth's surface occupied by populations sharing recognizable and distinctive cultural characteristics | |
| 226011267 | culture trait | a unit of learned behavior ranging from the language spoken to the tools used or games played | |
| 226011268 | diffusion | the process by which an idea or innovation is transmitted from one individual or group to another across space | |
| 226011269 | diffusion barrier | any conditions that hinder either the flow of information or the movement of people and thus retard or prevent the acceptance of the innovation | |
| 226011270 | environmental determinism | the belief that the physical environment exclusively shapes humans, their actions, and thoughts | |
| 226011271 | expansion diffusion | the spread of an item or idea from one place to others | |
| 226011272 | hunter-gatherer | preagricultural people dependent on the year-round availability of plant and animal foodstuffs they could secure with the rudimentary stone tools and weapons at their disposal | |
| 226011273 | ideological subsystem | consists of ideas, beliefs, and knowledge of a culture and the ways these things are expressed in speech or other forms of communication. | |
| 226011274 | independent invention | innovations developed in two or more unconnected locations by individuals or groups acting independently | |
| 226011275 | innovation | changes to a culture that result from ideas created within the social group itself and adopted by the culture | |
| 226011276 | mentifact | abstract belief systems that tell us what we ought to believe, value, and how to act | |
| 226011277 | multilinear evolution | concept proposed by Julian Steward to explain the common characteristics of widely separated cultures developed under similar ecological circumstances | |
| 226011278 | sociofact | economic, political, military, religious, kinship, and other associations that define the social organization of a culture | |
| 226011279 | sociological subsystem | the sum of those expected and accepted patterns of interpersonal relations that find their outlet in economic, political, military, religious, kinship, and other associations | |
| 226011280 | syncretism | the process of the fusion of the old and new | |
| 226011281 | technological subsystem | composed of material objects, together with the techniques of their use, by which people are able to live | |
| 226011282 | relocation diffusion | the innovation or idea being physically carried to new areas by migrating individuals or populations that posses it |
