Unit 3 Vocab Flashcards
Hierarchical diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend from one key person higher in authority or power to other persons or places
Hearth
The region from which innovative ideas originated
Gendered spaces
Certain locations they are designed and deliberately incorporated into the landscape to accommodate gender roles.
Gender roles
Sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one’s status as male or female
Expansion diffusion
The spread of a feature, trend religion or culture amazing people from one area to another, in a snowballing process. As it spreads, it gets longer.
Ethnicity
Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.
Ethnocentrism
Evaluation of another cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture.
Ethnic enclave
A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area, such as China Town.
Diffusion
The spreading of something from it’s hearth, or origination point.
Diaspora
I dispersion (Distribution) Of people from their homeland.
Dialect
Original variety or unique language, distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
Cultural relativism
Evaluation of a culture by its own standards.
Cultural landscape
The natural landscape that has been modified by humans, reflecting their cultural beliefs and values.
Culture
The beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies shared by a society, and passed down from generation to generation.
Creolization
The process in which two or more languages, converge, and form a new language(Used to describe languages in the Caribbean when slavery in colonialism emerged cultures)
Christianity
The religion based on a person, and its teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices. It’s hearth is South-west Asia, and adherents can be found worldwide.
Contagious diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature, trend, or an idea throughout a population, regardless of social classes, and levels of power.
Colonialism
Attempt by one country, to establish settlements and to impose, its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.
Centripetal force
A force that tends to unify, or bring people together and enhance support for a state or community.
Centrifugal forces
Forces that divide a state or pull people apart from each other-Internal religious, political, economic, linguistic, or ethnic differences.
Buddhism
The religion that was founded in India, by a former prince who sought enlightenment. The hearth is in India. Most adherence of this religion now live in East Asia or south Asia.
Assimilation
Two cultures meet, and one culture is absorbed completely by force, without any imprints of culture.
Forced culture absorption
Acculturation
The process by which people within one culture adopt some of the traits of another, while, still retaining their own distinct culture.
They adopt another Culture, but keep traits from their original culture.
Hinduism
A religion and philosophy developed in ancient India, characterized by belief in reincarnation and supreme being who takes many forms. Its believers are largely in India.
Ethnic religion
Religion based on a ethnic group that stays in one specific region or area.
Imperialism
Using political or military pressure on another country/state in order to exploit their people, labor, or natural resources.
Indigenous
A group of people native to a certain area.
Islam
A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed Which Stresses belief in one god (Allah) , Paradise and hell, and a body of law written in Quran adherents Are called Muslims. The hearth is in a Saudi Arabia/Mecca, and most adherence are in SE Asia northern Africa and SW Asia.
Isogloss
A boundary that separates religion’s in which different languages are spoken
Judaism
A religion with a belief in one god. It originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people.Yahweh Was responsible for the world and everything within it. They preserved there early history in the Old Testament. The hearth is an SW, Asia, and most adherents are in Israel.
Language families
(Made up from language, branches, many create a language group) A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
Language branches
(Branches that make up language, families, many make up a language) A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
Lingua franca
A language, mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different languages.
Monotheistic
The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god.
Multiculturalism
A situation in which different or multiple ethnic groups exist separately within the same space. And share equally in economic and political life.
Pilgrimage
A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.
Placemaking
The process of people creating the landscape of their community. This includes physical, cultural and social identities of the group.
Creating a community
Polytheistic
Believe in or worship of more than one god.
Postmodern agriculture
A style or movement in which emerged in the 1960s as a Reaction against in austerity, formality and lack of variety of modern agriculture.
No formality
Sense of place
Connecting memories and a distinct feeling to location.
Sequent occupance
The notion or change of the environment that societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
The society contributes to the cultural landscape.
Sikhism
The doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam. Most adherents live in northern India.
Syncretism
Process of combining different, cultural features into something new.
Stimulus diffusion
The fundamental idea behind a cultural trait, stimulates a new innovation. The tree its self does not spread, but triggers an idea that leads to a new cultural trait.
An idea that leads to a new cultural trait.
Taboos
A restriction on Behavior or certain actions imposed by social custom.
Toponym
The name given to a place or location.
Universalizing religion
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location
Religion that tries to please everyone
