All About Culture
Predominantly present among homogenous groups of people maintaining their traditions, values, mostly in isolation
Folk Culture
Occurs when people move from their original location to another and bring their innovations with them.
Relocation Diffusion
A group of languages originating from an earlier language
Language Family
Anyone can be a member of it. Their beliefs attract the universal population
Universalizing Religion
This is made up of structures within the physical landscape caused by human imprint/human activities
Cultural Landscape
This term unifies a state and provides stability
Centripetal Forces
Restrictions imposed by social customs. In terms of food preferences, Islam and Judaism prohibit the consumption of pork.
Taboos
The spread of an idea through a population where the amount of those influenced grows continuously larger
Expansion Diffusion
Adopted common languages due to trade and business, such as English, Spanish, and Chinese
Lingua Franca
Part of a particular ethnic or political group. In order to practice the religion you must be born into it and/or through marriage.
Ethnic Religion
the way humans adapt to the physical and cultural landscape they are living in...
Adaptive Strategy
This term divides a state leads to balkanization, weakening, etc.
Centrifugal Forces
The objective (unbiased) view of understanding others cultural beliefs and customs
Cultural Relativism
Defined as distance-controlled spreading of an idea through a local population by contact from person to person. Hint: Spreads like a cold
Contagious Diffusion
A mixture of two languages that is a native language of a group of people
Creole Languages
Practiced in small, cultural groups. They usually combine ethnic beliefs of tribes
Tribal Religions
Refers to differences in socioeconomic and political power, opportunity between men and women
Gender Gap
the process where a state breaks down through Ethnic Conflict
Shatter-Belt
Defined as a place where innovations and new ideas originate and diffuse to other places
Cultural Hearth
When an idea spreads by passing first among the most connected individuals, then spreading to other individuals
Hierarchical Diffusion
A language that develops when two or more different languages meet in one geographic region, usually a result of trading among people who speak different languages
Pidgin Language
When religious beliefs and systems are rejected.
Secularism
the process by which a state breaks down due to conflicts among its ethnicities
Balkanization
The theory that a place can be occupied by multiple different groups each modifying the landscape and having its own imprint for future occupiers
Sequent Occupancy
A repetitive act that a particular group performs
Custom
When an idea diffuses from its cultural hearth outward, but the original idea is changed by the new adopters
Stimulus Diffusion
Variations of speech
Dialects
Are self-sufficient with little organization. Ex. Islam prefers to unify by faith rather than specific boundaries.
Autonomous Boundaries
the more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes the less powerful ethnic group to make a homogenous nation state
Ethnic Cleansing
Places that reflect cultural identity in a specific cultural landscape. Ex:Santa Barbara
Toponyms
States that the environment does not play a role towards determining human behaviors or placing restrictions but rather humans place their own cultural restrictions.
Cultural Determinism
The adoption of diffusing traits that are not practical or reflective of a region's environment or culture
Maladaptive Diffusion
The largest language family
Indo-European
A universalizing religion that tries to convert others to practice.
Proselytic Religion
States that the physical environment establishes limitations of the possibilities of populations.
Possibilism
The perception based on our emotional connection and association to a certain place).
Sense of Place