Native American Culture based on cosmological and spiritual worldview with importance on community

Appalachian Culture People-center communal culture based on realism and spirituality. Patriarchal.

African/African American/other black populations Cosmological worldview with emphasis on communal structure and action

Cosmological worldview belief that creation and universe are made by God

People-centered Worldview belief in a strong community and strength of humanity

Empiricism and Emperical Worldview belief that knowledge can only be understood through the five senses. Scientific method

Spiritual worldview concern more for non-material aspects of life

Communal worldview living for the community

Individualistic worldviewmore concern for personal interest and gain

Materialistic worldview belief that physical matter is the only reality and is most important. Materials should be used up for human purpose

Normative culture another word for mainstream culture, which determines aspects of culture and deems certain ones as important

Monoculturalism one culture rules

Multiculturalism many culture are recognized in society as important

High culture associated with mainstream culture but also related to fine arts and high society aspects

Low culture the culture the is devalued by mainstream culture

Lived culture how people live their everyday life

Dead culture culture represented today as lived culture of the past

Popular culture the culture produced by ordinary people

Mass culture the culture produced by institutions

Enculturation the process of learning values, beliefs, knowledge, and skills of a culture

Acculturation fusing one culture into another culture

Social reproduction Society replicates itself over generations, usually without much change

Hegemony a process in which a ruling group justifies itself to be the mainstream, normative culture and promotes monoculturalism through all four culture types: social, economic, political, historical

social culture culture of the ordinary people produced as people socialize

economic culture deals with money and material aspect in a culture

political culture deals with power and how it is distributed

historical culture deals with construction of meaning in a society

social solidarity a united society

socialization the process of uniting a society

society a group of people that represents a collective of cultures

hybrid culture culture composed of more than one cultures fused together to make a new culture