Glossary of Cross-Cultural Communication Terminology | Part One
- Acculturation — the process by which individuals acquire the knowledge and skills that enable them to more or less function in a second culture
- Achieved statue — a status obtained through choice and achievement
- Adjudication — the process involving delegating decisions to others
- Affinal ties — kinship relationships by marriage
- Animism — the religion of primitive people based on a belief in a spirit world
- Anthropology — the study of man as a biological, psychological, and sociological culture bearing being
- Archaeology — the study of the artifacts of prehistoric societies
- Artifact — any portion of the material environment deliberately used or modified for use by man
- Ascribed status — a status that society assigns to an individual, usually based on characteristics of birth such as race and sex
- Assimilation — the total adaptation to a new culture
- Avunculocal residence — a living arrangement by which a married couple live with the brother of the wife’s mother
- Behavioral sciences — those sciences that study human behavior, including anthropology, psychology, and sociology
- Bilateral descent — descent traced through both parents
- Clan — a consanguinely related group, patrilineal or matrilineal, believing in a common descent
- Clinical design — the application of anthropology to a social problem
- Cognitive anthropology — the study of the organizing principles underlying behavior
- Community — a corporate body sharing sociopolitical identity and a geographic area
- Compartmentalization — a psychological process by which a person boxes off conflicting things from each other
- Consanguine ties — kinship relationships based on biological relationships
- Container — a tool used to sore matter or energy for a length of time while preserving it from loss or contamination
- Converter — a tool that changes one kind or form of matter or energy into another
- Cross cousin — the child of one’s parent’s sibling of the opposite sex
- Cultural anthropology — the branch of anthropology concerned with the study of existing human cultures
- Cultural determinism — the approach to human behavior that sees culture as the determining factor of behavior
- Cultural relativism — the approach to an interpretation and evaluation of behavior and objects by reference to the normative and value standards of the culture to which the behavior or objects belong.
- Culture — the learned and shared attitudes, values, and ways of behaving of a people; also the artifacts of the people
- Culture complex — a cluster of related culture traits seen as a single unit
- Culture shock — the reaction experienced by an individual who comes to live in a new and different culture
- Culture trait — the smallest unit of culture; individual acts characteristically done by members of a culture
- Dependent variable — the observed factor in an experimental study
- Deviance — behavior that violates normative rules
- Dialect — a variation of a language
- Economics — the production, distribution, purchase, and consumption of goods and services
- Educational anthropology — the comparative study of socialization and enculturation processes
- Enculturation — the process by which individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that enable them to become more or less functioning members of their society.
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