Folk & Pop
The area in which a unique culture or specific trait develops.
What is culture hearth?
The language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers.
What is Mandarin?
Large and fundamental division within a religion.
What is Branch or Sect?
The spread of culture and/or cultural traits by people who migrate and carry their cultural traits with them.
What is Relocation Diffusion?
As technology improves, the amount of time it takes for ideas to diffuse across a space becomes smaller.
What is space-time compression?
The beliefs and practices of small, homogenous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are relatively isolated and slow to change.
What is Folk culture?
The two most wide spread language families.
What are Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan?
A religion that does not seek converts, appeals to one group of people, and does not diffuse far from the hearth
What is Ethnic Religion?
A trait that diffuses from a group of lower status to a group of higher status.
What is reverse hierarchical diffusion?
This religion is an exception to the rule that ethnic religions do not diffuse far from their hearths because of this.
What is Judaism and Diaspora?
Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture.
What is Taboo?
A boundary between linguistic features.
What is Isogloss?
The universalizing religion with places of worship usually located in the center of a town and surrounded by minarets.
What is Islam?
The spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire after Emperor Theodosius declares it to be the state religion.
What is Hierarchical diffusion?
The belief that your own cultural group is more important and superior to other cultures.
What is Ethnocentric?
A person’s choice to allow themselves to be influenced by the diffusion of pop culture traits.
What is cultural convergence?
The classification of languages from largest to smallest.
What is Family - Branch - Group - Language?
Three religions that have sacred sites in the city of Jerusalem.
What is Judaism, Christianity, Islam?
Contemporary cause of the English language becoming a global Lingua Franca.
What is urbanization, globalization, and technology?
Indigenous children in the US and Canada were forced into boarding schools in order to force this.
What is assimilation?
Popular culture has spread and several traits have become part of a worldwide culture as a result of this.
What is globalization?
A formal language created from the blending of Dutch, other European languages, and African languages.
What is Afrikaans?
The religion that originated in South Asia and spread throughout much of Southeast and East Asia.
What is Buddhism?
Language that has diffused throughout East Africa and become a lingua franca for the region.
What is Swahili?
The idea of a neighborhood or community whose landscape reflects evidence of multiple cultures as a result of immigrants forming ethnic enclaves.
What is sequent occupancy?