Unit 3: First 32 Words Flashcards
Material culture; Tangible things. Any item, made by humans, represents a material aspect of culture.
Artifacts
Laws that restrict certain activities.
Blue laws
The physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape.
Built Environment
Those that divide a group of people or a region.
Centrifugal forces
Those that unify a group of people or a region.
Centripetal forces
The first group to establish cultural and religious customs in a space is known as…
Charter group
Buildings that rotate, curve, and stretch the limits of size & height.
Contemporary architecture
Action of adopting traits, icons, or other elements of another culture.
Cultural appropriation
The visible reflection of a culture or the built environment.
Cultural landscape
Consists of related sets of cultural traits and complexes that create similar behaviors across space.
Cultural patterns
Large areas that include several regions. Cultures within a… have a few traits they all share.
Cultural Realms
Determined based on characteristics such as religion, language, and ethnicity.
Cultural Regions
Which is 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.
Cultural Relativism
All of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects are a part of…
Culture
Types of elements, visible and invisible are…
Cultural traits
Process or steps and acceptable behaviors related to greeting a person in different cultures.
Cultural complex
The area in which a unique culture or a specific trait develops is a…
Culture Hearths
Occurs when one group of people is dispersed to various locations.
Diaspora
To spread
Diffuse
Clusters of people of the same culture
Ethnic Enclaves
In rural areas, ethnic concentrations form…
Ethnic Islands
Refers to membership within a group of people who have common experiences and share similar characteristics such as ancestry, language, customs, and history.
Ethnicity
People believing in their own cultural group is more important and superior to other cultures.
Ethnocentrism
The beliefs and practices of small, homogeneous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are relative isolated and slow to change.
Folk Culture
An attempt to follow a literal interpretation of a religious faith.
Fundamentalism
Elements of popular culture can quickly be adopted worldwide, making them part of…
Global Culture
Increased integration of the world economy since the 1970s.
Globalization
When a member of an ethnic group reside in their ancestral lands, and typically possess unique cultural traits.
Indigenous Culture
Consists of tangible things, or those that can be experienced by senses.
Material Culture
Non material culture; no physical presence. Beliefs, values, practices, and aesthetics.
Mentifacts
Based on people’s connections
Nationality
