Religion
What is the largest denomination of Christianity?
Catholicism
This type of culture changes over time
Popular culture
What is a relatively small area occupied by a distinct culture or ethnicity, which largely results from chain migration?
Ethnic Enclave (ex. Chinatown, Little Italy, etc)
English is the world's what?
Lingua Franca
Name the two types of cultural diffusion.
Expansion and Relocation
The founder of Buddhism
Who is Siddhartha Gautama
Give an example of non-material culture
values, beliefs, norms, language, symbols, rituals, and social constructs
What is the elimination of uniqueness across cultural landscapes?
Placelessness
Study of names of places
Toponmy
Give an example of relocation diffusion.
The spread of Amish culture throughout Northeast and Midwest
The speaking of Spanish in Latin America
The creation of Cuban neighborhoods in Miami by refugees
What are the three main types of religions?
universalizing, ethnic, and indigenous
The birthplace of a cultural trait is known as a
What's the difference in race and ethnicity?
Race is biological and ethnicity is cultural.
The way the same language is spoken in different areas
Dialect
What are the three types of expansion diffusion?
Contagious
Hierarchical / Reverse Hierarchical
Stimulus
Give two examples of ethnic religions
Judaism, Hinduism, Shinto, Sikhism
Define ethnocentrism.
When people judge other cultures based on the preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of their own culture.
Opposite of cultural relativism.
People who share this may live in the same country
Nationality
Name a country that speaks over 400 different languages.
Papua New Guinea (840)
Indonesia (710)
Nigeria (524)
India (453)
Define distance decay
The further people are from each other the less likely they are to interact.
Name the 5 main religions of the world and their sacred buildings of worship.
Hinduism: Temples
Judaism: Synagogues
Buddhism: Temples, Stupas, Pagodas
Christianity: Churches/Cathedrals
Islam: Mosques
Name two forms of qualitative information.
Architecture
Language
Ethnicity
Sequent occupancy
Rural vs. Urban
Agricultural vs. Industrial
Historical
What is the difference between assimilation and acculturation?
Assimilation is when someone is forced to adopt cultures of a new society.
Acculturation is when someone chooses to adopt cultural traits of another culture.
Most spoken native language in the world.
Mandarin Chinese
Give an example of stimulus diffusion.
McDonalds menus across the globe.
Sesame Street Big Bird colors and languages
Coke and its recipe