Culture
A ____ culture is a type of culture practiced by relatively small, homogenous populations in particular areas.
Folk
____________ diffusion is the idea, innovation, or item spreads rapidly from person to person.
Contagious
A place of origin for a widespread cultural trend or innovation
Hearth
A _____ religion is a religion that worships only one god.
Monotheistic
A common language used to communicate from people of Native languages
Lingua Franca
____ culture is found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite difference in personal characteristics.
Popular
_________ diffusion is the spread of ideas through physical movement of people.
Relocation
A behavior heavily discouraged by a culture
Cultural taboo
Is Christianity a universalizing religion or an ethnic religion?
Universalizing
The killing of racial or ethnic group by another racial or ethnic group
Ethnic Cleansing
or
Genocide
The expansion of economic, political, social, and cultural processes to the point they become global in scale.
Globalization
The spread of religions like Christianity and Islam is an example of __________ diffusion.
Relocation
The repetitive act of group performed to such an extent it becomes a characteristic of the group.
Custom
This religion began in Southwest Asia and diffused into nearby areas and Northern Africa.
Islam
A neighborhood that retains cultural distinction from a larger area
Ethnic enclave
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, and English are still spoken in many parts of Africa. This is a result of ________.
Colonialism
Hip-hop music spreading from the rougher parts of the Bronx and Brooklyn to pretty much everywhere in the United States is an example of ___________ diffusion.
Hierarchical
Visible imprints of human activity and culture on the landscape
Cultural Landscape
This type of religion does not seek converts and only diffuses through people of ethnic heritage.
ethnic religion
The belief that one's own culture/ethnic group is superior to others and judges other groups
Ethnocentrism
The idea that a person’s beliefs and actions should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture.
Cultural relativism
A boy seeing ice hockey on tv and then going outside and beginning to hit a stone with a stick into a makeshift goal is an example of _________ diffusion.
Stimulus
The theory that two cultures will become more alike the more they interact.
Cultural convergence
Which religion that we talked about in class is polytheistic?
Hinduism
The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.
acculturation