Unit 3 Cultural Practices GP 2 Flashcards
An area in which people have many shared culture traits
culture region
a collection of interacting elements that taken together shape a group’s collective identity.
culture system
The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture,
culture trait
A religion in China which emphasizes the removal from society and to become one with nature.
Daoism
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
dialect
the migration of religious or ethnic groups to foreign lands despite their continued affiliation with the land and customs of their origin
diasporas
Durkheim believed that everything was a function of society, and so naturally his ideas and views on religion are from the stand point that it too is a function of society
Durkheim’s sacred and profane
The Christian religion of the Byzantine Empire in the middle east that formed from Christianity’s schism between the remains of the western and eastern Roman Empire. The Christian church ruled by the Byzantine emperor and the patriarchs of various historically significant Christian centers/cities.
Eastern Orthodox
the theory that the environment determines, plays a decisive role, or causes social and cultural development.
environmental determinism
religion that is identified with a particular ethnic or tribal group and that does not seek new converts
ethnic religion
evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture.
ethnocentrism
language without any native speakers
extinct language
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
folk culture
Where many people who live in a land space share at least some of the same folk culture
folk culture region
the composite culture, both material and non-material, that shapes the lives of folk societies
folk life
