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19 Cards in this Set
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Socialization
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A similar process to enculturation that emphasizes social rather than cultural factors in learning one's culture.
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Social Birth
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Social recognition of the transition to personhood.
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Child-rearing Practices
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Methods used to take care of infants and young children, including ways of feeding, playing with, carrying, and sleeping arrangements.
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Folklore
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Texts that relate traditional stories, the exploits of cultural heroes and characters handed down from generation to generation
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Status
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The position or rank that one occupies in a group or society that carries certain role expectations.
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Gender Identity
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The way that people think about themselves in terms of their sex, how they present themselves as men or women.
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Rites of Passage
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Rituals that mark culturally significant transitions throughout the life cycle, including birth, puberty, marriage, and death.
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Initiation Rites
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Rituals that mark a person's transition from childhood to adulthood.
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Psychological Anthropology
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A subfield of cultural anthropology that studies the psychological motivations of behavior and the personality types prevalent in society.
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Naturalization
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The process of learning and incorporating attitudes, values, and behaviors so that they seem natural or part of one's nature rather than learned cultural behavior.
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Personality
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A constellation of behavioral traits and dispositions. Some features of this emerge at birth while others are acquired in the process of enculturation and psychological and cognitive growth.
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Private Self
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One's inner feelings and concepts of oneself.
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Public Self
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The self that one projects in public, in interactions with others.
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Self-concepts
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Attitudes that people hold about themselves.
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Independent Self
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Concepts of individuals as self-contained, independent agents with a focus on their own thoughts, feelings, and achievements.
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Interdependent Self
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Concepts of individuals as connected with others, related to other people, with a focus on group needs rather than individual inner feelings, opinions, and attitudes.
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National Character
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A constellation of behaviors and attitudes thought to be characteristic of a modal personality type prevalent in a particular country.
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Deviance
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Behaviors that violate cultural norms and expectations.
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Culture-specific Psychological Disorders
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Psychological disorders that seem to occur with some frequency in certain cultures but are rare or absent in others.
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