ABC's of Culture

3. The ways people and groups make decisions about leadership, power, laws, and public issues.
7. Foods, meals, and eating traditions that are common or meaningful within a culture.
8. Clothing and styles that reflect a culture's traditions, values, or identity.
11. The system a society uses to create rules, maintain order, and make decisions.
12. Special days or celebrations that recognize important cultural, historical, or religious events.
13. Information, skills, traditions, and understandings that are learned and passed from one generation to another.
17. The shared behaviors, interests, language, styles, music, and values common among young people.
18. Organized parts of society that meet important needs, such as family, education, government, religion, and the economy.
22. Groups formed for a particular purpose, such as schools, businesses, clubs, teams, or community groups.
23. Shared ideas about what a culture considers good, important, desirable, or acceptable.
24. The overall well-being of people, including health, safety, education, income, and access to resources.
25. Physical objects created and used by a culture, such as clothing, tools, art, and technology.
26. Traditional ways of behaving or doing things within a culture.

1. Types of work people perform and the roles occupations play within a society.
2. The general ideas, attitudes, and beliefs that characterize a particular time period.
4. A system of words, symbols, or gestures people use to communicate and share culture.
5. Rules and expectations for how people are supposed to behave in a society.
6. Objects, images, gestures, or words that have a shared meaning within a culture.
9. Beliefs and practices related to faith, spirituality, morality, or the sacred.
10. Ideas that people in a culture accept as true.
14. Cultural attitudes and expectations about work, effort, responsibility, and success.
15. The ways a culture teaches knowledge, skills, values, and expectations to its members.
16. Sounds, songs, instruments, and musical traditions used for entertainment, expression, celebration, or storytelling.
19. Customs, beliefs, and practices that are passed from generation to generation.
20. The belief that another culture is better or more desirable than your own culture.
21. The growth of cities and the movement of people from rural areas into urban areas.