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| Culture | Set of values, beliefs, rules and institutions held by a specific group of people |
| Subculture | A group of people who share a unique way of life within a larger, dominant culture |
| Ethnocentricity | Belief that one's own ethnic group or culture is superior to that of others |
| Cultural literacy | Detailed knowledge about a culture that enables a person to work happily and effectively within it |
| Values | Ideas, beliefs and customs to which people are emotionally attached |
| Attitudes | Positive or negative evaluations, feelings and tendencies that individuals harbour toward objects or concepts |
| Aesthetics | What a culture considers "good taste" in the arts, the imagery evoked by certain expressions and the symbolism of certain colours |
| Manners | Appropriate ways of behaving, speaking and dressing in a culture |
| Customs | Habits or ways of behaving in specific circumstances that are passed down through generations in a culture |
| Folk custom | Behaviour, often dating back several generations, that is practiced by a homogeneous group of people |
| Popular custom | Behaviour shared by a heterogeneous group or by several groups |
| Social structure | A culture's fundamental organisation, including its groups and institutions, its system of social positions and their relationships, and the process by which its resources are distributed |
| Social group | Collection of two or more people who identify and interact with each other |
| Social stratification | Process of ranking people into social layers, or classes |
| Social mobility | Ease with which individuals can more up or down a culture's "social ladder" |
| Caste system | System of social stratification in which people are born into a social ranking, or caste, with no opportunity for social mobility |
| Class system | System of social stratification in which personal ability and actions determine social status and mobility |
| Brain drain | Departure of highly educated people from one profession, geographic region or nation to another |
| Communication | System of conveying thoughts, feelings, knowledge and information through speech, writing and action |
| Lingua franca | Third or "link" language understood by two parties who speak different native languages. |
| Body language | language communicated through unspoken cues, including hand gestures, facial expressions, physical greetings, eye contact and the manipulation of personal space |
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