Unit 4: Folk and Popular Culture Flashcards
`Cultural Trait
A shared object or cultural practice
Artifact
A visible object or technology that a culture creates
Mentifact
A central, enduring element of a culture that reflects its shared ideas, values, knowledge, and beliefs
Sociofact
A structure or organization of a culture that influences social behavior
Terroir
The contribution of a location’s distinctive physical features to the way food tastes
Acculturation
The process by which people within one culture adopt some of the traits of another while still retaining their own distinct culture
Assimilation
A category of acculturation in which the interaction of two cultures results in one culture adopting almost all of the customs, traditions, language, and other cultural traits of the other.
Syncretism
A process of innovation combining different cultural features into something new
Multiculturalism
A situation in which different cultures live together without assimilating
Ethnocentrism
The tendency of ethnic groups to evaluate other groups according to preconceived ideas originating from their own culture
Cultural Relativism
The evaluation of a culture by its own standards
Ethnic Neighborhoods
A cultural landscape within a community of people outside of their area of origin
Sequent Occupance
Notion that successive societies leave behind their cultural imprint (collection of evidence about human character and experiences within a geographic region) which shapes the cultural landscape
Centrifugal Force
A force that divides a group of people
Centripetal Force
A force that unites a group of people
Contagious Diffusion
The process by which an idea or cultural trait spreads rapidly among people of all social classes and levels of power
Hierarchical Diffusion
The spread of an idea or trait from a person or place of power/authority to other people or places
Stimulus Diffusion
Process by which a cultural trait or idea spreads to another culture or region but is modified to adapt to the new culture.
