Culture and Diffusion

Question 1

Material and immaterial ways of life of a particular group of people. Groups behaviors, beliefs, actions, and objects

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

Agreed upon practice or standards that guide the behavior of a culture

Answer 2

Cultural norms

Question 3

Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture

Answer 3

Cultural taboo

Question 4

Belief that one’s culture is superior to others. Judging other groups through the lens of one’s own culture

Answer 4

Ethnoentrism

Question 5

Principle that an individual human’s beliefs and actions should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture

Answer 5

Cultural relativism

Question 6

Area where civilization began that radiated its customs, innovations, and ideologies and transformed the world

Answer 6

Cultural hearth

Question 7

Belief that physical environment, especially things like climate and terrain actively shapes culture

Answer 7

Environmental determinism

Question 8

belief that environmental conditions may impact culture in some ways, but people are the primary architects of culture

Answer 8

Possibilism

Question 9

Process by which an innovation or idea spreads from one place to another over time

Answer 9

Diffusion

Question 10

Idea that develops in hearth and remains strong there while spreading outward

Answer 10

Expansion diffusion

Question 11

Person tells somebody and that person tells another and so forth

Answer 11

Contagious diffusion

Question 12

Spread of information from 1 kep person or node of authority/power to others with less power

Answer 12

Hierarchical diffusion

Question 13

Something spreads but is changed by the people who adapt the idea

Answer 13

Stimulus diffusion

Question 14

Idea spread through physical movement of people

Answer 14

Relocation diffusion

Question 15

Many countries censor the internet

Answer 15

Censorship

Question 16

Exchange goods, encounter new people and ideas, new vocabulary, language was adopted

Answer 16

Trade

Question 17

Brought ideas/inventions with them. Shift in religion and language, cultural suppression

Answer 17

Colonialism

Question 18

Trade, colonialism, war, urbanization, globalization

Answer 18

Causes to diffusion

Question 19

Idea that interaction between 2 places decreases as the distance between them increases

Answer 19

Distance decay

Question 20

Adopting cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another, while still maintaining elements of their own culture

Answer 20

Acculturation

Question 21

Process of absorbing one cultural group into another. When this happens one group can no longer be distinguished from another more dominant culture group

Answer 21

Assimilation

Question 22

Traits from 2 cultures fuse to form a new cultural trait

Answer 22

Syncretism

Question 23

Existence of multiple cultures in 1 society with the ideal of all cultures being valued and worthy of practice

Answer 23

Multiculturalism

Question 24

Favoring those born in a country over immigrants

Answer 24

Nativism

Question 25

Force that unites and brings people together, leading to the strengthening of a state

Answer 25

Centripetal force

Question 26

Force that divides people or prevents them from coming together, weakening the state

Answer 26

Centrifugal state