Culture Basics
Diffusion & Cultural Change
Language & Communication
Religion & Belief Systems
Ethnicity & Identity
100
The shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by a society.
What is culture?
100
The spread of an idea or innovation from its source to other places.
What is diffusion
100
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
What is Lingua Franca
100
A belief system that attempts to appeal to all people globally.
What is a universalizing relgion
100
The identity with a group of people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.
What is ethnicity
200
The visible, tangible aspects of culture such as clothing, architecture, and food.
What is material culture or an artifact
200
The type of diffusion where an idea spreads outward from its hearth but the original idea changes as it moves.
What is stimulus diffusion?
200
The largest group of related languages stemming from a common ancestral language, for example Sino-Tibetan
What isa language family
200
A religion that is closely tied to a specific ethnic group and location.
What is an ethnic religion
200
Describe the spatial pattern of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity in the US. Explain why Hispanic or Latinos are the most prevalent race in that region.
Hispanic and Latinos tend to live in the southwest of the US, in states sucha as Texas, New Mexico, and California. This is becuase of the geographic closeness to Mexico, where they have most likely relocated from.
300
The process by which a group of people adopt traits of another culture while maintaining their own cultural identity.
What is acculturation
300
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population, often through media.
What is contagious diffusion?
300
This is the largest language family in the world
What is Indo-European
300
The region(s) of the world where you can find the hearth of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
What is The Middle East / Southwest Asia
300
A pattern where different cultural groups live separately within the same urban area, such as China Town
What is an ethnic enclave
400
The experience of everyday life, as influenced by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, reflects a standardization of cultural expressions around the world.
What is globalization
400
The spread of a feature or trend through the movement of people from one place to another.
What is relocation diffusion?
400
Identify the most spoken second language in Europe according to this map
What is English
400
The process by which people lose their originally differentiating traits when coming into contact with another society or culture.
What is assimilation
400
Identify one historical reason for the diffusion of Spanish people around the world
Answers could include transatlantic trade, war, colonization, religious conquest
500
The geographic approach that emphasizes the relationship among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area.
What is the cultural landscape?
500
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance their culture
Centripetal force
500
A simplified mixture of two or more languages used for trade, which may evolve into it's own separate language
What is creolization (or pidgin language if it is less developed)
500
The blending of two or more religious or cultural belief systems into a new system.
What is syncretism?
500
Identify the most common type of diffusion that results in ethnic enclave?
What is relocation diffusion?