Folk and Pop Culture (chp.4) Unit 3 Test Flashcards
Artifact
Any item, made by humans, that represents a material aspect of culture.
Mentifact
The shared ideas, values, and beliefs of a culture.
Sociofact
the structures and organizations of a culture which influence social behaviour.
Acculturation
Occurs when an ethnic or migrant group adopts enough of the ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially.
Assimilation
Occurs when an ethnic or migrant group blends in with the host culture and loses many culturally distinctive traits.
Syncretism
The blending of beliefs, ideas, practices, and traits, especially in a religious context.
Multiculturism
A set of policies that promote the active participation and inclusion of minority groups in national histories, national politics, and cultural institutions with the goal of embracing difference within society.
Cultural Traits
A single aspect of a given culture or society.
Cultural Relativism
An approach to understanding other cultures that seeks to understand individuals cultures from a wider perspective of cultural logic.
Ethnocentrism
the belief that one’s own culture or ethnic group is superior to others, often leading to the evaluation of other cultures based on the standards and values of one’s own.
Cultural landscape
the visible imprint of human activity on the natural environment, showcasing the interplay between culture and nature.
What are the types of expansion diffusion
hierarchical diffusion, contagious diffusion, stimulus difusion
Relocation diffusion
When people move, or relocate, they spread ideas along with them.
Stimulus Diffusion
the process by which a specific trait or idea is spread from one culture or society to another, but is modified or adapted in the process.
Hierarchical Diffusion
when an idea spreads by passing first among the most connected individuals, then spreading to other individuals.
Contagious Diffusion
the distance-controlled spreading of an idea through a local population by contact from person to person.
Convergence
Cultures are converging or becoming more alike.
Divergance
the process through which distinct cultural groups become increasingly different from one another over time.
Globalization
the increasing connection of economic, cultural, and political characteristics across the world.
Cultural Hearth
A focused geographic area where important innovations are born and from which they spread.
Pop culture
Heterogenous culture that is influenced by key urban areas and quick to adopt new technologies; the opposite of a local culture.
Habit
A repetitive act performed by a particular individual
Taboo
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
Indigenous culture
A local culture that is no longer the dominant ethnic group within its traditional homeland because of migration, colonization, or political marginalization.
Traditional Architecture
commercial buildings that are standard square-walled and made out of materials like stone or brick.
Postmodern Architecture
A design style that is a reaction against modernist architecture; it has a flair for the dramatic, creating a spectacle while serving a variety of functions.
Sequence occupancy
Refers to the fact that many places have been controlled or affected by a variety of groups over a period of time; those groups have reshaped the functions or meanings of those places and left behind layer of meaning.
