Unit 3: Cultural Patterns And Processes Chapter 6: Topic 3.3

Question 1

Consist of related sets of cultural traits and complexes that create similar behaviors across space.

Answer 1

Cultural Patterns

Question 2

Where a religion or ethnicity began

Answer 2

Culture Hearth

Question 3

Congregationalists are strong in New England (1600s), Baptists and Methodists are most common in the Southeast (travelling preachers in 1800s), Lutherans live mostly in the Midwest (German or Scandinavian ancestors, 1800s), Mormons live in or near Utah (founders settled in the mid-1800s after religious persecution drove them out of Missouri and Illinois), Roman Catholics are most common in urban areas in the Northeast and throughout the Southwest), Jews, Muslims, and Hindus live in urban areas (traditional home to immigrants). The US is mostly Christian however, it has great religious diversity

Answer 3

Regional distribution of religions in the US

Question 4

Based on people’s connection to a particular country

Answer 4

Nationality

Question 5

Are those that unify a group of people or a region. Ex: common language and religion, heritage/history, etc.

Answer 5

Centripetal Forces

Question 6

Are those that divide a group of people or a region. These forces can pull apart societies, nations, and states.

Answer 6

Centrifugal Forces

Question 7

The legal framework of a country derived from Islamic edicts taken from their holy book, the Qur’an.

Answer 7

Sharia

Question 8

Laws that restrict certain activities Ex: the sale of alcohol on Sunday

Answer 8

Blue Laws

Question 9

Prohibition against eating or drinking certain items. Ex: Hindus do not eat beef and many Jews and Muslims do not eat pork.

Answer 9

Food Taboos

Question 10

An attempt to follow a literal interpretation of a religious faith

Answer 10

Fundamentalism

Question 11

Countries whose governments are run by religious leaders through the use of religious laws

Answer 11

Theocracies

Question 12

They believe their own cultural group is more important and superior to other cultures

Answer 12

Ethnocentric

Question 13

The concept that a person’s or group’s beliefs, values, norms, and practices should be understood from the perspective of the other group’s culture

Answer 13

Cultural Relativism

Question 14

The action of adopting traits, icons, or other elements of another culture.

Answer 14

Cultural Appropriation