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?
Associated with a large, diverse group of people who are influenced by mass media and production, accepted essentially anywhere but changes rapidly.
Pop Culture
Pizza becomes popular in many countries, but each place adapts it to local tastes, such as adding curry in India or corn in South Korea.
Stimulus Diffusion
A distinct boundary defined by linguistic differences.
Isoglass
A core cultural element representing a group's beliefs, values, and ideas, such as language, religion, and philosophies
Mentifact
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition.
What is Culture?
A homogeneous group of people with strong family beliefs and traditions; more isolated and separated groups.
Folk Culture
A new fashion trend begins among celebrities and professional athletes and then spreads to the general population.
Hierarchical Diffusion
This is religion with a rather concentrated distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location where its adherents are located
What is an ethnic religion?
Religions can be broken into these two types based on their growth model.
What are universalizing and ethnic?
The process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture
What is Assimilation?
This religion teaches the Four Noble Truths and 8-fold path. Originated in ancient India, specifically the northeastern region near the modern-day border with Nepal and diffused east along the silk road.
What is Buddhism?
In 1620, the Pilgrims traveled from England to North America, bringing their religious beliefs, language, and cultural traditions with them, which became established in New England.
Relocation Diffusion
A strong feeling or perception people have of a place or unique attributes of a specific location - cultural
Sense of Place
Indo-European is an example of this.
What is a language family?
Process by which different cultures become more similar as they interact and share ideas, values, and practices. This phenomenon occurs through various channels like globalization, technology, and migration, leading to a blending of cultural elements across societies.
Cultural Convergence
French, English, Spanish, Belgian are still spoken in many parts of Africa. This is a result of...
Colonialism
After originating on the Arabian Peninsula, Islam spread across North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of South Asia through trade routes, conquest, and missionary work, while remaining strongest near its place of origin.
Expansion Diffusion
Refers to the process through which new, mixed cultures emerge, primarily in regions where diverse ethnic groups come into contact, leading to the blending of languages, customs, and traditions
Creolization
Visible imprint of human activity on the natural environment, showcasing the interplay between culture and nature
What is a cultural landscape?
This term refers to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint
What is sequence occupancy?
Japan is a homogenous nation where 99% of people speak Japanese. This is an example of a ________ force.
Centripetal
A religion spreads from its hearth across multiple regions through trade and conquest, but over time splits into different branches with distinct beliefs and practices, such as Sunni and Shia Islam.
This is also an example of what?
Expansion Diffusion
Cultural Divergence
When two cultural ideas are joined and produce a new cultural idea? Example would be Sikhism being created from Islam and Hinduism.
What is syncretism?