33-96 Words Flashcards
a conscious effort by businesses to foster a sense of place based on attributes of their community.
Neolocalism
no physical appearance
Non-material culture
the loss of uniqueness in a cultural landscape- one place looks like the next
Placelessness
When cultural traits are spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups
Popular Culture
Movement away from boxy concrete buildings. High rise structures made with large amounts of steel and glass siding
Post modern Architecture
the place where religious figures and congregations meet to perform religious ceremonies.
sacred place
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
Sequent occupancy
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.
Sharia
Ways people organize their society and relate to one another
Sociofacts
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
Taboos
the government is presumed to be divinely ordained by God.
Theocracies
Reflects a local culture’s values and adaptations to the environment
Traditional architecture
the spread of people, things, ideas, cultural practices, disease, technology, weather, and. more from place to place
Diffusion
Migration from the source area and carrying the innovation or idea to new areas
Relocation diffusion
An idea develops in a source area and remains strong there while spreading outward
Expansion diffusion
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.
Contagious diffusion
Ideas and artifacts spread first between larger places/people and only later to smaller places/less prominent people.
Hierarchical diffusion
processes in which a trait diffuses from a lower. class to a higher class.
Reverse hierarchical diffusion
The trait changes as it diffuses but still keeps its identity
Stimulus diffusion
Group moving to a new area adopts the values of the larger group that has received them while maintaining elements of their own culture
Acculturation
A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.
Adages
A person who supports a certain religion
Adherent
Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and life.
Animism
When an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group. Usually not absolute; religion
Assimilation
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.
Buddhism
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.
caste system
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.
Christianity
An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economical, and cultural principles in another territory
Colonialism
Pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocabulary and has become the native language for a group of people.
Creole languages
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.
Cultural convergence
when a culture separates or goes in a different direction.
Cultural divergence
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
DIalects
Emphasize strong cultural characteristics among their followers.
Ethnic religions
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
Hinduism
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
Imperialism
a family (or phylum) of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major languages of Europe
Indo-European Language Family
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.
Islam
a boundary line between two distinct linguistic regions.
Isogloss
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.
Judaism
Behaviors have consequences in the present & future
Karma
The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes.
Glocalization
Place of worship for Sikhs
Gurdwara
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.
Homogenization
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.
Lingua franca
A collection of individual languages with a common ancestor.
Language tree
a person skilled in foreign languages.
a person who studies linguistics.
Linguists
Believes in one god
Monotheistic
The coexistence of several cultures in one society with the ideal of all cultures being valued and studied
Multiculturalism
a person against immigration
Nativist
The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents
Official languages
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.
Pidgin Language
voluntary travel by an adherent to a sacred site to pay respects or participate in a ritual at the site.
Pilgrimage
Belief in may Gods
Polytheistic
Languages that lie in the areas that were once controlled by the Roman Empire.
Romance languages
the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam.
Sikhism
an informal, often short-lived kind of language used in place of standard words.
Slang
an idea or a phenomenon that does not exist in nature but is created and given meaning by people
Social Constructs
the blending of cultures and ideas from different places.
Syncretism
the decline in travel time between geographical locations as a result of transportation, communication, and related technological and social innovations.
Time-space convergence
Name of place
Toponym
offer belief systems that are attractive to the universal population.
Universal Religions
