Unit 3 - Cultural Patterns and Processes Flashcards
A group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects
culture
Belief systems, customs, and traditions; building blocks of culture
cultural trait
A group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait
cultural complex
The unifying expressive components of everyday life as enacted by localized, tradition-bound groups
folk culture
The area in which a unique culture or specific trait develops
culture hearth
The broad areas where groups share similar but not identical cultural traits
cultural region
Clearly defined by government or experts (states)
formal region
Based on interaction and are usually focused on a node or focus point
functional region
Based on how people think about certain places
perceptual region
How the boundaries of a region reflect the human imprint on the environment
cultural landscape
Clusters of people of the same culture, but surrounded by people of a culture that is dominant in that region
ethnic enclaves
Larger areas that include several regions
culture realm
the process of intensified interaction among peoples, governments, and companies of different countries around the globe
globalization
The increasing sense of connectivity that seems to be bringing people closer together even though their distances are the same.
space-time compression
When cultural traits such as clothing, music, movies, and types of business spread quickly over a large area
popular culture
The spreading of information, ideas, behaviors, and other aspects of culture over wide areas
diffusion
The spread of cultural traits by people migrate and carry their cultural traits with them
relocation diffusion
The spread of cultural traits through direct or indirect exchange without migration
expansion diffusion
A cultural trait that spreads continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people
contagious diffusion
The spread of culture outward from the most interconnected places or from centers of wealth and importance
hierarchical diffusion
When a trait diffuses from the lower class to the higher class
reverse hierarchical diffusion
When people in a culture adopt an underlying idea or process from another culture, but modify it because they reject one trait of it.
stimulus diffusion
Assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one.
acculturation