Culture Concepts & Language

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Assimilation

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When the minority group looses differentiating traits from the major group and the two become the same

Question 1

Acculturation

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The minority group picks up traits from the major group

Question 2

Culture diffusion

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The process of spreading and adoption of a cultural element, from it’s place of origin across a wider area

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Culture

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The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society

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Cultural realm

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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

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Cultural region

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A region within which a common cultural characteristics prevail

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Cultural landscape

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Fashioning of a natural landscape by a culture group

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Formal

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An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics

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Functional

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An area organized around a node or focal point

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Vernacular

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An area that people believe to exist as a part of their cultural identity

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Expansion diffusion

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The spread of a feature or trend among one people to another in a snowballing effect

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Hierarchical diffusion

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The spread of a feature or trend from one hey person or node of authority or power to other persons or place

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Contagious diffusion

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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend through out a population

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Stimulus diffusion

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The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected

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Relocation diffusion

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The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another

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Sequent occupance

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The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape

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Folk culture

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Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups

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Popular culture

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Culture found in a large, heterogenous societies that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics

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Time - Distance decay

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The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance form it’s point of origin or source

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Time - space convergence

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Refers to the accelerated movement of goods, information, and ideas during the 20th century made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communications

Question 20

Intervening obstacle

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An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration

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Creole

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A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated

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Dialect

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A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation

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Isoglass

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A boundary that separated regions in which different language uses predominate

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Language

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A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning

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Language family

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A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history

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Language group

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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

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Lingua Franca

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A language mutually understood and commonly used it trade by people who have different native languages

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Pidgin language

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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

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Toponomy

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The name given to a portion of the Earth’s surface