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33-96 Words Flashcards

1
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a conscious effort by businesses to foster a sense of place based on attributes of their community.

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Neolocalism

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no physical appearance

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Non-material culture

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the loss of uniqueness in a cultural landscape- one place looks like the next

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Placelessness

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When cultural traits are spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups

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Popular Culture

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Movement away from boxy concrete buildings. High rise structures made with large amounts of steel and glass siding

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Post modern Architecture

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6
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the place where religious figures and congregations meet to perform religious ceremonies.

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sacred place

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The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.

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Sequent occupancy

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the legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Muslim. principles.

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Sharia

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9
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Ways people organize their society and relate to one another

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Sociofacts

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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.

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Taboos

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the government is presumed to be divinely ordained by God.

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Theocracies

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12
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Reflects a local culture’s values and adaptations to the environment

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Traditional architecture

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the spread of people, things, ideas, cultural practices, disease, technology, weather, and. more from place to place

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Diffusion

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Migration from the source area and carrying the innovation or idea to new areas

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Relocation diffusion

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An idea develops in a source area and remains strong there while spreading outward

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Expansion diffusion

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Cultural trait spreads continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people . Word of mouth. As people communicate the ideas spread and expand to become a part of its culture.

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Contagious diffusion

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17
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Ideas and artifacts spread first between larger places/people and only later to smaller places/less prominent people.

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Hierarchical diffusion

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processes in which a trait diffuses from a lower. class to a higher class.

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Reverse hierarchical diffusion

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19
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The trait changes as it diffuses but still keeps its identity

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Stimulus diffusion

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Group moving to a new area adopts the values of the larger group that has received them while maintaining elements of their own culture

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Acculturation

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21
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A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.

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Adages

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22
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A person who supports a certain religion

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Adherent

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23
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Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and life.

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Animism

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24
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When an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group. Usually not absolute; religion

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Assimilation

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25
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the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth.

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Buddhism

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a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person’s occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society.

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caste system

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a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as embodied in the New Testament, emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior.

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Christianity

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An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economical, and cultural principles in another territory

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Colonialism

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Pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has become the native language for a group of people.

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Creole languages

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The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication.

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Cultural convergence

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when a culture separates or goes in a different direction.

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Cultural divergence

32
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A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.

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DIalects

33
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Emphasize strong cultural characteristics among their followers.

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Ethnic religions

34
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The main religion of India which includes the worship of many gods and the belief that after you die you return to life in a different form

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Hinduism

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Forceful extension of a nation’s authority by conquest or by establishing economic and political domination of other nations that aren’t it’s colonies

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Imperialism

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a family (or phylum) of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major languages of Europe

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Indo-European Language Family

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A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god (Allah), Heaven and Hell, and a body of law written in the Quran.

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Islam

38
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a boundary line between two distinct linguistic regions.

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Isogloss

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A religion with a belief in one god. It originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people. Yahweh was responsible for the world and everything within it. They preserved their early history in the Old Testament.

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Judaism

40
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Behaviors have consequences in the present & future

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Karma

41
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The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes.

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Glocalization

42
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Place of worship for Sikhs

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Gurdwara

43
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An area in which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristic.
the process by which different places increasingly resemble those found in other areas. the tendency toward uniformity of ideas, values, technologies, and institutions among associated culture groups.

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Homogenization

44
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a language that combines simple words from multiple languages so that people who need to understand one another, in order to conduct trade and facilitate business, are able to communicate with one another.

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Lingua franca

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A collection of individual languages with a common ancestor.

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Language tree

46
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a person skilled in foreign languages.
a person who studies linguistics.

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Linguists

47
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Believes in one god

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Monotheistic

48
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The coexistence of several cultures in one society with the ideal of all cultures being valued and studied

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Multiculturalism

49
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a person against immigration

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Nativist

50
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The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents

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Official languages

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A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communication between speakers of two different languages.

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Pidgin Language

52
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voluntary travel by an adherent to a sacred site to pay respects or participate in a ritual at the site.

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Pilgrimage

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Belief in may Gods

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Polytheistic

54
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Languages that lie in the areas that were once controlled by the Roman Empire.

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Romance languages

55
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the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam.

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Sikhism

56
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an informal, often short-lived kind of language used in place of standard words.

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Slang

57
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an idea or a phenomenon that does not exist in nature but is created and given meaning by people

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Social Constructs

58
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the blending of cultures and ideas from different places.

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Syncretism

59
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the decline in travel time between geographical locations as a result of transportation, communication, and related technological and social innovations.

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Time-space convergence

60
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Name of place

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Toponym

61
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offer belief systems that are attractive to the universal population.

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Universal Religions

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