Unit 3a Vocab Flashcards
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Culture
Def: The beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technology’s shared by a society and passed down from generation to generation
ex: Clothing, literature, food, and music
- Cultural iceburg
Stimulus diffusion
Def: Traits spread to another culture or region but are modified to adopt to the new culture
ex: a trigger of a new idea
- a mixture or blending
Cultural relativism
Def: The evaluation of a culture by its own standards
ex: putting aside your own beliefs
- grasshopper at friends house
Ethnocentrism
Def: the tendency of ethnic groups to evaluate other groups according to preconceived ideas originating from their own culture
ex: the belief that ones cultures group is superior
cultural trait
Def: a shared object or cultural practice
ex: muslim women wearing hijabs
Cultural landscape
Def: a natural landscape that has been modified by humans, reflecting their cultural beliefs and values
ex: Fences, roads, crops, hiking trails,
- language, agricultural practices , architecture, religion, sequent occupance
sequent occupance
Def: the notion that successive society’s leave behind their cultural imprint, a collection of human character and experiences within a geographic region, which shapes the cultural landscape
ex: spanish conquistadors giving their religion of roman catholic to most parts of south america such as costa rica
sense of place
Def: the subjective feeling and memories people associate with a geographic location
ex: from personal memories or movies/tv shows cn effect sense of place
centripetal force
Def: force that unites a group of people
ex: common language, national sport
- create solidarity, and provide stability
centrifugal forces
Def: a force that divides a group of people
ex: violence, civil unrest, war, two or more ethnic groups, own political status, wishing to separate and form their own country
relocation diffusion
Def: the spread of cultural traits through the movement of people
ex: African- American migrants influences northern culture by bringing the blues
- its the people moving the ideas/trends
expansion diffusion
Def: the spread of cultural traits outward from where it originated
ex: - three types contagious, hierarchical, and stimulus
-cultural traits moving without the people
contagious diffusion
Def: the process by which an idea or cultural trait spreads rapidly among people of all social classes and levels of power
ex: an outbreak of a disease
- person to person through contact
hierarchical diffusion
Def: The spread of an idea or trait from a person or place of power or authority or other people or places
ex: a fashion trend
cultural hearth
Def: an area where cultural traits develop and from which cultural traits diffuse
ex: indus river valley, nile river valley, huang he river valley, and mesoamerica (where most cultural traits came from)
Creolization
Def: The blending of two or more languages that may not include the features of either original language
ex: Haitian creole( french and african
- Its an official language
Lingua franca
Def: common language used among speakers of different languages
ex: english is the biggest lingua franca around the world
Colonialism
Def: The practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories
ex: the spanish colonization of south america
Globalization
Def: The expansion of economic, cultural, and political processes on a worldwide scale
ex: the internet speeding up globalization
-english being the most used lingua franca
indigenous languages
Def: a language that is spoken by the original inhabitants of a place, area, or region
ex: the navajo language is indigenous to most native americans
cultural divergence
Def: the process by which cultures become less similar due to conflicting beliefs or other barriers
ex: can happen when a person or group moves away from their core culture and are exposed to new cultural traits
cultural convergence
Def: The process by which cultures become more similar through interaction
ex: - influenced by spatial patterns
- closer proximity= more alike/more connected
language families
Def: a group of languages that share a common ancestral language from a particular hearth, or region of origin
ex: The indo european family is the biggest family
language branch
Def: a collection of languages within a language family that shares a common origin ans separated from other branches in the same family several thousand years ago
ex: The romance branch in the indo- european family that derived from latin
