Unit 3 Flashcards
The principle that an individual human’s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture.
Cultural Relativism
Elements developed through social interaction that are transmitted or communicated in some form.
Cultural Trait
Evaluating another culture through the lens of one’s own culture.
Ethnocentrism
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
Folk Culture (Local)
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Popular Culture (Global)
The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.
Cultural Landscape
State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling with a certain character.
Sense of Place
The spread of a feature or trend through the bodily movement of people from one place to another (usually not numbers changing, just spatial patterns).
Relocation Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process.
Expansion Diffusion
Spreads from person to person through personal contact, spreads based on proximity.
Contagious Diffusion
Spreads down a social or urban hierarchy. Either a famous, rich, powerful person is an early adopter and others follow suit or a trend begins in a large city, then spreads to medium cities and then small towns.
Hierarchical Diffusion
When a trait makes substantial changes while diffusing across a cultural boundary.
Stimulus Diffusion
Place of origin for innovation or invention.
Cultural Hearths
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
Language Families
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
Dialects
