Ch 15 / Processes Of Change

Question 1

Primary innovation

Answer 1

Creation, invention, or chance discovery of a completely new idea, method, or device

Question 2

Secondary innovation

Answer 2

Deliberate application or modification of an existing idea, method, or device

Question 3

Diffusion

Answer 3

Spread of certain ideas, customs, or practices from one culture to another

Question 4

Acculturation

Answer 4

Massive cultural change occurring after a society experiences firsthand contact with a more powerful society

Question 5

Ethnocide

Answer 5

Dominant society deliberately sets out to destroy another society’s heritage; violent eradication of an ethnic group’s cultural identity as a distinct group

Question 6

Syncretism

Answer 6

Fusion of indigenous and foreign beliefs into new cultural forms

Question 7

Insurgency

Answer 7

Organized armed resistance or violent uprising to an established government or authority in power; AKA rebellion

Question 8

Revolution

Answer 8

Radical change in a society or culture. Politically, forced overthrow of government and establishment of a new one

Question 9

Modernization

Answer 9

Process of political and socioeconomic change, whereby developing societies acquire some cultural characteristics of Western societies