Culture
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
Taboo
A language that is written as well as spoken.
Literary Tradition
The doctrine or belief in the existence of only one God.
Monotheism
Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color.
Race
The modification of the natural landscape by human activities.
Cultural Landscape
The type of culture found in large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Popular Culture
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
Dialect
A term meaning the combination of multiple religious traditions.
Syncretism
Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment to a particular country.
Nationality
The type of culture that includes a wide range of concrete human creations called artifacts.
Material Culture
Type of culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
Folk Culture
A boundary that separates regions in which different languages predominate.
Isogloss
Universalizing Religion
The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence.
Genocide
The spread of culture to surrounding areas.
Cultural Diffusion
The process of adjustment to the dominant culture.
Acculturation
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence.
Language Branch
The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned, according to religious law.
Caste
Laws in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.
Apartheid
The largest religion in the world by number of adherents (2019).
Christianity
The process of giving up cultural traditions and adopting the social customs of the dominant culture of a place.
Assimilation
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
Lingua Franca
A division of a religious branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body.
Denomination
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
Centripetal Force
A consequence of popular culture, this term refers to when buildings, streets and the environment look the same no matter where you go.
Uniform Landscapes