Glossary of Cross-Cultural Communication Terminology | Part Two
- Endogamy — a sociological rule requiring a person to select a mate from within a culturally defined group of which both are members
- Eskimo kinship system — a bilateral, linear kinship system
- Ethnocentrism — the practice of interpreting and evaluating behavior and objects by reference to the standards of one’s own culture rather than those of the culture to which they belong
- Ethnography — the descriptive study of human societies
- Ethnohistory — the cultural history of a people
- Ethnology — comparative ethnography
- Ethnoscience — a linguistic approach to the study of nonverbal culture
- Ethnotheology — a discipline concerned with the deculturalization and contextualization of theology
- Exogamy — a sociological rule requiring that potential mates come from different culturally defined groups
- Experimental design — a methodology used to control various factors in an experimental study
- Extended family — a living arrangement in which two or more related nuclear families share a household
- Family of orientation — the family one is born into
- Family of procreation — the family one forms by marriage
- Fictive ties — socio-legal kinship relationships
- Folkways — low-level norms such as customs and manners
- Foraging — food acquisition by gathering naturally growing foodstuffs
- Formal government — an independent system or social institution set up for the purpose of governing
- Fraternal polyandry — a marriage arrangement in which a woman marries a man and his brothers
- Functional equivalent — something in one culture that performs the same function as something else in another culture
- Government — a society’s mechanisms and structures for the maintenance of order and communal decision making
- Group — a unit of two or more people involved in communication and interrelationship and having “unit awareness”
- Hawaiian kinship system — a bilateral, generational kinship system
- Horizontal status — a status on the same level or having the same rank as another
- Horticulture — intensive types of agriculture involving killing certain plant growth and planing other plant growth with higher food value
- Hunting — the catching and killing of wildlife for food
- Hypothesis — a statement to be tested by a scientific methodology
- Idiolect — an individual usage of a language
- Incest taboo — the prohibition against mating with or marrying kinsman
- Inclusive groups — groups in which membership in one group means inclusion in another group
- Independent variable — a factor that is varied in an experimental study
- Informal government — a governmental system based on an already-existing system such as the kinship system
- Iroquois kinship system — a unilateral, linear kinship system
- Kinesic communication — the transmission of messages by body movements
- Kinship — a network of family relationships
- Kin term — a specific term in a specific language used to refer to a kin type
- Kin type — an abstract concept of a relationship that can be described in every culture
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