Culture Vocabulary

_______________________ = Things (such as music, movies, etc.) that are widely known and popular in a society at the moment.

_____________________ = The set of beliefs, values, and practices that a group of people have in common.

______________________ = A group of people who share a common culture and ancestry.

________________________ = How society puts people together. Sometimes by economic (lower, middle, upper class) groups, family units, ethnic groups, etc.

_______________________ = What people believe and how they explain life's meaning (e.g. death, birth, rituals, church, God).

_______________________ = It is how people dress, eat, and go about living and doing things every day.

This provides goods and services that are bought, sold and used. It is the flow of money and how people use it.

________________________ = It is what happened in the past that has affected the present, and shaped the way people in a certain place live.

_____________________ = The way a certain group of people communicate and speak with each other. Written, spoken and nonverbal.

______________________ = Having many cultures in one area.

______________________ is the way that people express themselves in ways such as paintings, sculptures, architecture, dance, music, theatre and literature.

_______________________ = How a place (country, city, state, etc.) is run, who it is run by, and the laws that have to be obeyed.