Cultural Landscape
Traditionally Practiced by primarily by small, homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas.
What is Folk Culture?
Diffusion by migration or forced migration.
What is relocation diffusion?
The belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
A language used by the government to enact legislation, publish documents, and conduct other public business.
What is an official language?
An ethnic religion that is mostly concentrated in India.
An area where new ideas and innovations spring up and spread to other places.
What is a cultural hearth?
The process where a cultural trait spreads outward from its hearth through contact among people.
What is contagious diffusion?
The denial that the existence of God can be proven either way empirically.
What is agnosticism?
A language of international communication.
What is a lingua franca?
This theory, while it can be seen as helpful to forging relationships and eradicating discrimination, could also be seen as a threat to universal human rights.
What is cultural relativism?
An emotional attachment to a certain place.
What is a sense of place?
The spread of culture from the highest class to the lowest class.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
A journey to a specific place that has religious meaning to a person.
What is a pilgrimage?
Symbols that represent words or meaningful parts of words.
What are logograms?
A religion that focuses on individual meditation.
What is Buddhism?
The process of viewing other cultures through the lens of your own, and therefore seeing them as inferior.
What is ethnocentrism?
The spread of culture from the lower classes to the highest classes.
What is reverse hierarchical diffusion?
A religion that is closely related to a particular group of people, that can remain isolated, and that does not make an effort to convert adherents.
What is an ethnic religion?
The boundaries between variations in pronunciations or word usage.
What are isoglosses?
A place that is holy to 3 religions, and has caused conflict for over a thousand years.
The City of Jerusalem/ The Holy Land
A restriction on behavior imposed by religious law or social custom.
What is a taboo?
When people in a culture adopt an underlying idea or process, but change one part of it.
What is stimulus diffusion?
A force that tends to divide people in an area.
What is a centrifugal force?
A simplified mixture of two languages used in order to communicate basic ideas between those who have different primary languages.
Mountains, islands, valleys, etc...
What are places where language and dialect are easily preserved?