Unit 3 Flashcards
Folk culture
Beliefs and practices of small, homogeneous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are isolated and are slow to change
Popular culture
Beliefs and practices of large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
What religions are universal?
Christianity, Islam, and Budhism
What religions are ethnic?
Judaism and Hinduism
Assimilation
When a cultural group moves to another place and fully adopts the culture of another.
Acculturation
When a cultural group adopts some of another groups culture but keeps some of their own
Syncretism
When two cultural groups come together to create one new culture
Relocation Diffusion
Spread of ideas through physical movement
Expansion Diffusion
Spread of a feature when a place adds feature
Hierarchical Diffusion
Spread of ideas from a node to other people or places
Contagious diffusion
Rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
Stimulus Diffusion
Spread of underlying principles even though characteristic itself doesn’t;t diffuse
Globalization
Diffusion changes society
Imperialism
Occurs when an industrialized nation takes control of other nations, lands or territories for economic or political gain.
Language Family
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded human history about 15 families in the world today
