vocabulary

These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population: Edwardian culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty. These patterns, traits, and products considered with respect to a particular category, such as a field, subject, or mode of expression: religious culture in the Middle Ages; musical culture; oral culture. The predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize the functioning of a group or organization.**
 * CULTURE- The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.

ETHOCENTRIC- characterized by or based on the attitude that one's own group is superior


 * CULTURAL UNIVERSAL-a cultural pattern extant in every known society.**

CULTURAL DIFFUSION- in anthropology, the process by which a cultural trait, material object, idea, or behavior pattern is spread from one society to another; also called diffusion


 * CIVILAZATION-a relatively high level of cultural and technological development ; specifically : the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained b: the culture characteristic of a particular time or place


 * **T** itle
 * 1. || the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like. ||
 * 2. || a descriptive heading or caption, as of a chapter, section, or other part of a book. ||
 * **O** rientation
 * || the act or process of orienting. ||
 * 2. || the state of being oriented. ||
 * 3. || an introduction, as to guide one in adjusting to new surroundings, employment, activity, or the like: New employees receive two days of orientation. ||
 * 4. || Psychology, Psychiatry . the ability to locate oneself in one's environment with reference to time, place, and people. ||
 * 5. || one's position in relation to true north, to points on the compass, or to a specific place or object. ||
 * 6. || the ascertainment of one's true position, as in a novel situation, with respect to attitudes, judgments, etc. ||
 * **D** ate a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen: July 4, 1776 was the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
 * 2. || the day of the month: Is today's date the 7th or the 8th? ||
 * 3. || an inscription on a writing, coin, etc., that shows the time, or time and place, of writing, casting, delivery, etc.: a letter bearing the date January 16. ||
 * 4. || the time or period to which any event or thing belongs; period in general: at a late date. ||
 * 5. || the time during which anything lasts; duration: The pity is that childhood has so short a date. ||
 * 6. || an appointment for a particular time: They have a date with their accountant at ten o'clock. ||
 * 7. || a social appointment, engagement, or occasion arranged beforehand with another person: to go out on a date on Saturday night. ||
 * 7. || a social appointment, engagement, or occasion arranged beforehand with another person: to go out on a date on Saturday night. ||


 * **L** egend a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.
 * 2. || the body of stories of this kind, esp. as they relate to a particular people, group, or clan: the winning of the West in American legend. ||
 * 3. || an inscription, esp. on a coat of arms, on a monument, under a picture, or the like. ||
 * 4. || a table on a map, chart, or the like, listing and explaining the symbols used. Compare [|key] 1 ( def. 8 ) . ||
 * 5. || Numismatics . [|inscription] ( def. 8 ) . ||
 * 6. || a collection of stories about an admirable person. ||
 * 7. || a person who is the center of such stories: She became a legend in her own lifetime. ||
 * 8. || Archaic . a story of the life of a saint, esp. one stressing the miraculous or unrecorded deeds of the saint. ||
 * 9. || Obsolete . a collection of such stories or stories like them. ||

> || b. || a thin, scarious or membranous part of a plant, as a bract of a catkin. || || > || b. || Also called **[|mill scale.]** such scale formed on iron or steel during hot-rolling. || || > || b. || Bible. an unspecified affliction that caused Paul to become temporarily blind. Acts 9:18. || ||
 * **A** uthor
 * || a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist. ||
 * 2. || the literary production or productions of a writer: to find a passage in an author. ||
 * 3. || the maker of anything; creator; originator: the author of a new tax plan. ||
 * 4. || Computers . the writer of a software program, esp. a hypertext or multimedia application. ||
 * **S** cale
 * || one of the thin, flat, horny plates forming the covering of certain animals, as snakes, lizards, and pangolins. ||
 * b. || one of the hard, bony or dentinal plates, either flat or denticulate, forming the covering of certain other animals, as fishes. ||
 * 2. || any thin, platelike piece, lamina, or flake that peels off from a surface, as from the skin. ||
 * 3. || Botany . || a. || Also called **[|bud scale.]** a rudimentary body, usually a specialized leaf and often covered with hair, wax, or resin, enclosing an immature leaf bud. ||
 * 3. || Botany . || a. || Also called **[|bud scale.]** a rudimentary body, usually a specialized leaf and often covered with hair, wax, or resin, enclosing an immature leaf bud. ||
 * 4. || [|scale insect.] ||
 * 5. || a coating or incrustation, as on the inside of a boiler, formed by the precipitation of salts from the water. ||
 * 6. || Often, scales.  Metallurgy . || a. || an oxide, esp. an iron oxide, occurring in a scaly form on the surface of metal brought to a high temperature. ||
 * 7. || scales, || a. || a cause of blindness or ignorance, as regarding the true nature of a person, situation, etc.: You're infatuated with her now, but the scales will soon fall from your eyes. ||
 * **S** ource
 * beginning: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of ...
 * a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story"
 * anything that provides inspiration for later work
 * a facility where something is available
 * informant: a person who supplies information
 * generator: someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints"
 * (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide"
 * get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies"
 * reservoir: anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"
 * specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report"
 * reference: a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation