Culture Concepts & Language Flashcards
Assimilation
When the minority group looses differentiating traits from the major group and the two become the same
Acculturation
The minority group picks up traits from the major group
Culture diffusion
The process of spreading and adoption of a cultural element, from it’s place of origin across a wider area
Culture
The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society
Cultural realm
A cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail.
-In North America, USA and Canada are culture realm but Mexico is in a different one
Cultural region
A region within which a common cultural characteristics prevail
Cultural landscape
Fashioning of a natural landscape by a culture group
Formal
An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
Functional
An area organized around a node or focal point
Vernacular
An area that people believe to exist as a part of their cultural identity
Expansion diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend among one people to another in a snowballing effect
Hierarchical diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend from one hey person or node of authority or power to other persons or place
Contagious diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend through out a population
Stimulus diffusion
The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected
Relocation diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another
Sequent occupance
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
Folk culture
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups
Popular culture
Culture found in a large, heterogenous societies that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
Time - Distance decay
The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance form it’s point of origin or source
Time - space convergence
Refers to the accelerated movement of goods, information, and ideas during the 20th century made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communications
Intervening obstacle
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration
Creole
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Isoglass
A boundary that separated regions in which different language uses predominate
Language
A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
Language family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
Language group
A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent last and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
Lingua Franca
A language mutually understood and commonly used it trade by people who have different native languages
Pidgin language
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used foe communications among speakers of two different languages
Toponomy
The name given to a portion of the Earth’s surface
