Concepts
Food preferences, architecture and land use are examples of this.
What is a cultural trait?
This is the Process of adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage
What is acculturation?
One example of a universalizing religion.
What is Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Sikhism?
Type of diffusion where people move to spread culture.
What is relocation diffusion?
This is the term for regional differences in a language.
What is an accent or dialect?
These are historical causes of diffusion.
What are Colonialism, trade and imperialism?
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition.
What is Culture?
A religion that does not want more adherents or followers outside of a specific group.
What is an ethnic religion?
Type of diffusion where some cultural traits are changed to better fit a new area while retaining core elements.
What is stimulus diffusion?
The feelings and memories that arise when you think about a place.
What is sense of place?
These are modern causes of diffusion.
What is the improvement of communication through technology (social media) and relocation of migrants.
The process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture
What is Assimilation?
The hearth of Christianity and Judaism.
What is Israel/The Middle East?
Type of diffusion where culture is spread quickly amongst people in an area or network.
What is contagious diffusion?
What are centripetal forces?
Indo-European is an example of this.
What is a language family?
The process of forming a unique space through community areas such as parks, statues, and religious sites.
What is placemaking?
This religion was founded in the Punjab region of India in the 15th Century AD and spread in that area mostly through contagious diffusion
What is Sikhism?
Type of diffusion that spreads culture from the bottom of society to the top.
What is Reverse-Hierarchical Diffusion?
A community composed and accepting of many different cultures.
What is multiculturalism?
Human interaction with nature helps form this.
What is a cultural landscape?
This term refers to different cultural groups occupying one space and its lasting imprint on the cultural landscape.
What is sequence occupancy?
The two things that made Christianity spread to become the most popular religion globally.
What are colonialism and relocation diffusion?
Type of diffusion where cultural traits or ideas themselves move.
What is expansion diffusion?
When two cultural ideas are joined and produce a new cultural idea?
What is syncretism?