Chapter 4 Flashcards
Assimilation
Behavioral an structural process where a little population reduces and loses its culture to dominate society
Acculturation
Process by which a person from one culture adopts traits of another culture
Cultural core
A culture region’s centralized zone of concentration, with the greatest homogeneity culture traits that characterize it
Cultural adaption
people adapt to culture of previously existing culture
Cultural landscape
a landscape that had been changed by humans in a way that reflects their culture
Culture
knowledge and values shared by a society
Culture region
An area in which people have shared cultural traits
Cultural ecology
Multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment
Culture realm
cluster of regions in which related culture system prevails
Cultural identity
Belief in belonging to a group or central cultural aspect
Innovation adoption
study of how, why, and at what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture
Maladaptive diffusion
what works well in one culture does not work in another
Sequent occupance
when an area has been inhabited and transformed by a succession of culture groups which leave their imprint
Cultural traits
Specific customs that are apart of everyday life of a particular culture
Cultural integration
The process of combining cultures together
Core, periphery, domain
the core house the main economic power of the region and the outlying region and that the periphery houses the lesser economic ties
Syncretism
The fusion of two distinctive cultural traits into a unique new hybrid trait
Cultural transition zones
Areas where two cultures come together