Concepts
Food preferences, architecture and land use are examples of this.
What is a cultural trait?
This is the Process of adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage
What is acculturation?
Associated with a large, diverse group of people who are influenced by mass media and production, accepted essentially anywhere but changes rapidly.
Pop Culture
These religions are universalizing religions.
What are Christianity and Islam?
A distinct boundary defined by linguistic differences.
Isoglass
These are historical causes of diffusion.
What are Colonialism, trade and imperialism?
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition.
What is Culture?
A homogeneous group of people with strong family beliefs and traditions; more isolated and separated groups.
Folk Culture
This religion spread through relocation, conquest and trade in Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Asia Minor.
What is Islam?
This is religion with a rather concentrated distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location where its adherents are located
What is an ethnic religion?
Religions can be broken into these two types based on their growth model.
What are universalizing and ethnic?
The process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture
What is Assimilation?
This religion teaches the Four Noble Truths and 8-fold path
What is Buddhism?
This means belief in more than one God
What is polytheism?
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
Relocation diffusion
Indo-European is an example of this.
What is a language family?
Ones belief in belonging to a group or certain cultural aspect
What is cultural identity?
French, English, Spanish, Belgian are still spoken in many parts of Africa. This is a result of...
Colonialism
This is the third largest religion with more than 1 billion followers.
What is Hinduism?
When cultural ideas originating from a culture are adapted and changed by other cultures while maintaining the basic principles of the original ideas.
Stimulus Diffusion
Human interaction with nature helps form this.
What is a cultural landscape?
This term refers to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint
What is sequence occupancy?
Japan is a homogenous nation where 99% of people speak Japanese. This is an example of a ________ force.
Centripetal
What is desire?
When two cultural ideas are joined and produce a new cultural idea?
What is syncretism?