Culture Vocab

Question 1

Define Culture

Answer 1

The customs of a social group of particular nation

Question 2

Define Cultural Realms

Answer 2

The majority of the nation or region practices that one culture

Question 3

Define cultural traits

Answer 3

Specific customs as part of the daily life a specific culture

Question 4

Define Cultural Hearths

Answer 4

The origin of the cultural trend when it went widespread

Question 5

Define Customs

Answer 5

A traditional way of acting or doing something to a specific society, place or time

Question 6

Define Habit

Answer 6

regular tendency or practice

a specific society, place, or time

Question 7

Folk Culture

Answer 7

practices of isolated small social groups living in rural places

Question 8

Popular Culture

Answer 8

An aspect of a culture that is widespread, rapidly

changing, and disseminated by the mass media

Question 9

Taboo

Answer 9

a prohibited practice or person, place, or thing

due to social norms

Question 10

Terroir

Answer 10

contribution of a location’s distinctive

physical features to the way food tastes

Question 11

Cultural Landscapes

Answer 11

to describe an Interaction between human activity and the environment.

Question 12

Sequence Occupancy

Answer 12

describing the present landscape of the region

Question 13

Cultural Imperialism

Answer 13

imposed by politically

ruling community

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Cultural Relativism

Answer 14

ethical and social standards show the cultural context from where they originated from

Question 15

Ethnocentrism

Answer 15

Evaluate of other cultures based on preconceptions gained from their own culture’s standards and customs

Question 16

Mentifacts

Answer 16

The core and enduring element of the culture that expresses its values ​​and beliefs

Question 17

Sociofacts

Answer 17

Connections between individuals and groups that unify culture and family, political, educational, and religious institutions.

Question 18

Artifacts

Answer 18

A man made relic usually from an ancient time period

Question 19

Cultural Extinction

Answer 19

The erasure of a culture

due to war, disease, etc

Question 20

Cultural Pluralism

Answer 20

Groups in the same region but they have very different ways of living

Question 21

Cultural Patterns/Cultural Complex

Answer 21

the way

people act in a certain culture

Question 22

Natural Landscape

Answer 22

environment that has not touch by human affair

Question 23

Symbolic Landscape

Answer 23

a piece of land that has a large meaning to a culture due to what it looks like

Question 24

Adaptive Strategy

Answer 24

people adapting to the landscape due to the physical or cultural area

Question 25

Acculturation

Answer 25

adopting and learning different cultural practices and using them

Question 26

Transculturation

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The process of merging cultures

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Syncretism

Answer 27

combining different religions and giving a sense of unity that allows for more inclusivity

Question 28

Landscape Pollution

Answer 28

Waste materials on land or underground

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Resource Depletion

Answer 29

using resources faster than they can be replaced

Question 30

Cultural Geography

Answer 30

A type of human geography

Question 31

Cultural Convergence

Answer 31

an idea that shows relationships changing and experience with new media

Question 32

Assimilation

Answer 32

when people lose there originality after coming into contact with another culture

Question 33

Marginalization:

Answer 33

treating a person or a group as insignificant

Question 34

Cultural Divergence

Answer 34

The result of a culture being influenced by a foreign culture

Question 35

Multiculturalism

Answer 35

Beliefs that different cultures or ethnic groups have the right to be unique and not conform to norms

Question 36

Separatism

Answer 36

The political motion of part of a political unit closer to independence.