Unit 3 vocab Flashcards
Acculturation
adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another
Architecture
the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
Artifacts
The material manifestation of culture, including tools, housing,systems of land use, clothing, etc. “What a culture uses”
Assimilation
the process of a person or group losing the cultural traits that made them distinct from the people around them
Branch
a major division within a religion
Caste System
a rigid set of social classes that provides privileges for the higher classes and limits on the lower classes - a person is born in a caste and castes only change upon reincarnation
Creole or creolized language
a language that began as a combination of two other languages and is spoken as the primary language of a group of people
Cultural convergence
when two cultures become more similar because of frequent interactions
Cultural divergence
when a culture splits into different cultures because of lack of interaction
Cultural relativism
the idea that a person’s beliefs, values, and practices should be
understood based on that person’s own culture, rather than be judged through the eyes of another culture
dialect
different forms of the same language used by groups that have some different vocabulary and pronunciations
diaspora
the scattering a of people from their homeland (especially the Jews from the Holy Land)
Indigenous (Folk/Ethnic) Culture
the cultural traditions that are generally held by a specific ethnic group, often localized in a specific area
Indigenous language
a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous people
Indigenous people
the original settlers of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled the area more recently
Language extinction
a language that is no longer spoken by anyone as their native language
Language family
a collection of languages that are all descended from an original,proto-language
Lingua franca
a language that groups of people who don’t speak the same language use to communicate often for trade or business
Mentifacts
the central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values
and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, and etc. “What
a culture believes”
Multiculturalism
when various ethnic groups coexist with one another without having to sacrifice their particular identities
Pilgrimage
a journey to a location that has religious significance
Secularism
a philosophy that interprets life on principles taken solely from the material world, without recourse to religion.
Sense of place
a strong feeling of identity that is deeply felt by inhabitants and visitors of a location
Sequent occupance
the idea that the current cultural landscape is a combination of
all the societies who lived there previously and the changes each
group made
