Culture
Cultural traits spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups
Popular culture
The spread of cultural traits by people who migrate and carry their cultural traits with them
Relocation diffusion
Variations in accent, grammar, usage, and spelling
Dialects
Religions that actively seek converts
Universalizing religions
The spread of information
Diffusion
Beliefs and practices of small, homogenous groups of people living in rural, isolated areas are are slow to change
Folk culture
The spread of cultural traits through direct or indirect exchange without migration
Expansion diffusion
Collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
Language families
Members are born into this religion
Ethnic religions
Process of developing towns and cities
Urbanization
The coexistence of several cultures in one society
Multiculturalism
When cultural traits spread continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people
Contagious diffusion
Common language used by people who do not share the same native language
Lingua franca
Area in which a unique religion, ethnicity, culture, or a specific trait develops
Cultural hearth
Process of intensified interaction among different countries around the world
Globalization
When an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group
Assimilation
When a cultural trait is adopted but modified
Stimulus expansion
Two languages mix and develop a new language with a more formal structure and vocabulary
Creolization
The visible reflection of a culture
Cultural landscape
Judging other cultures by the rules of your culture (Close Minded)
Ethnocentrism
When an immigrant group adopts the values and practices of the group that received them while still maintaining major elements of their own culture
Acculturation
When cultural traits spread from one important person, city or powerful class to other important people, cities, or classes
Hierarchical diffusion
Forces that divide people
Centrifugal forces
The restriction of a culture from outside cultural influences
Cultural divergence
Blending traits from two different cultures to form a new trait
Syncretism