Culture
The "birthplace" of a culture or trait.
What is a culture hearth?
Behaviors discouraged by a culture.
What are taboos?
The first group to establish cultural and religious customs in a space.
What is a charter group?
The spread of culture or cultural traits by people who migrate and carry their cultural traits with them.
What is relocation diffusion?
When members of an ethnic group reside in their ancestral lands, and typically possess unique cultural traits.
What is indigenous culture?
Formed by a small, homogeneous group, resistant to change.
What is a folk culture?
Art, clothing, food, music, sports, architecture, or any single tangible feature belonging to a culture.
What is an artifact?
Re-embracing the uniqueness and authenticity of a place.
What is neolocalism?
The spread of cultural traits outward through exchange without migration.
What is expansion diffusion?
Comprising a group's non-material culture, they consist of intangible concepts, not having a physical presence.
What are menifacts?
New cultural traits that spread rapidly and are adopted by various groups.
What is popular culture?
A specific place or natural feature that bears religious significance.
What is a sacred place?
Laws that restrict certain activities on Sunday.
What are blue laws?
Occurs when a cultural trait spreads continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people.
Define contemporary architecture.
Increased integration of the world economy.
What is globalization?
Following a literal interpretation of a religious faith.
What is fundamentalism?
Forces that can divide or unify a group or region.
What are centrifugal and centripetal forces?
The spread of culture outward from the most interconnected places or from centers of wealth and influence.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
Define diaspora.
What occurs when one group of people is dispersed to various locations?
Popular culture that is adopted worldwide.
Believing your own cultural group is more important and superior to other cultures.
What is ethnocentrism?
The ways people organize their society and relate to one another.
What are sociofacts?
A trait diffuses from a group of lower status to a group of higher status.
What is reverse hierarchical diffusion?
Define creole language.
What results when two or more separate languages mix and develop so that they are no longer a pidgin language?