Chapter 2 - Culture

3. The potential power of individuals and groups to contest cultural norms, values, mental maps of reality, symbols, institutions, and structures of power
4. A system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, shared, and contested by a group of people
7. rules about how people should behave in particular situations or toward certain other people
8. The complete collection of microorganisms in the human body's ecosystem
10. A conceptural framework that sees culture primarily as a symbolic system of deep meaning.
13. A conceptual framework positing that each element of society serves a particular function to keep the entire system in equilibrium
15. The idea, attributed to Franz Boas, that cultures develop in specific way because of their unique histories
16. Anything that represents something else

1. Fundamental beliefs about what is important, what makes a good life, and what is true, right, and beautiful
2. Cultural classifications of what kinds of people and things exist, and the assignment of meaning to those classifications
5. The theory proposed by 19th century anthropologists that all cultures naturally evolve through the same sequence of stages from simple to complex
6. The ability of a dominant group to create consent and agreement within a population without use of threat of force
9. An area of study in the field of genetics exploring how environmental factors directly effect the expression of genes in way that may be inherited between generations
11. The uneven distribution of resources and privileges among participants in a group or culture
12. The process of learning culture
14. the ability or potential to bring about change through action or influence