3.1

• culture - a visible force that shapes the way people think, feel, and behave
• culture can also be an invisible force guiding people through shared belief systems, customs, and traditions
• cultural traits - elements of culture that are visible and invisible
• culture hearth - the area in which a unique culture or a specific trait develops
• diffuse - spread
• taboos - behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture
• traditional culture - a culture that is passed down from generation to generation through oral tradition
• folk culture - the b life’s and practices of a small, homogeneous groups of people, often in a rural setting which are isolated and slow to change
• material culture - the material objects that people use to express their identity and communicate with others
• nonmaterial culture - culture that is not physical, such as ideas, values, and beliefs
• sociofacts - the social and cultural factors that influence the way we think and behave