Unit Three AP Exam Flashcards
Folk Culture
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
Popular Culture
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Ethnocentrism
The belief that one’s own culture is the best or better than other cultures.
Contagious Diffusion
The rapid, widespread of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Stimulus Diffusion
The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
Relocation Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend that through the bodily movement of people from one place to another.
Hierarchical Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.
Acculturation
The process of adjustment to the dominant culture while retaining features of a folk culture.
Assimilation
The process by which one cultural group becomes integrates into the larger more dominant culture.
Multiculturalism
The presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
Toponym
The term for a place name.
Creole Language
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominant.
Lingua Franca
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
Dialects
A regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
Isoglosses
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