Characteristics of Culture
Define culture.
What is the shared beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies of a society or group of people?
A cultural landscape is different from a natural landscape because it is modified by ___________.
What are humans?
Name the two major categories of cultural diffusion.
What is relocation and expansion diffusion?
The largest language family in the world.
What is Indo-European?
The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape.
What is placelessness?
Name the three types of cultural traits.
What are artifacts, sociofacts, and mentifacts?
Hair salons and barber shops are examples of these types of spaces.
What are gendered spaces?
What is relocation diffusion?
The geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs (e.g. lines that divide dialects).
What is isogloss?
The "shrinking" of the world due to improvements in communication and transportation technologies.
What is time-space compression?
Visible, physical objects created by a culture including tools, clothing, buildings.
What are artifacts?
These form when people of the same ethnicity that cluster together in a specific location, often in response to racism and discrimination.
What are ethnic neighborhoods/enclaves?
Type of expansion diffusion that spreads as people come into contact with each other.
What is contagious diffusion?
A mixture of English and Papuan languages as a result of British colonization is this type of language.
What is pidgin language?
Native American boarding schools in the U.S. forced this policy, which is also an effect of diffusion.
What is assimilation?
Name an example of a sociofact, or the ways in which a society behaves and organizes institutions.
What is family, education, government, religion, land-use, gender roles?
The Ground Zero Memorial is a more secular example of this.
What is a sacred space?
As cultural traits spread, they are altered due a cultural barrier, taboo, or difference.
What is stimulus diffusion?
This language has the highest estimated number of first-language speakers worldwide.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
An unbiased way of viewing another culture.
What is cultural relativism?
Food preferences and taboos are an example of this cultural trait.
What are mentifacts?
The idea that societies or cultural groups leave their cultural imprints when they live in a place, each contributing to the overall cultural landscape over time is called this.
What is sequent occupance?
The popularization of hip hop from impoverished city is an example of this type of diffusion.
What is reverse hierarchical diffusion?
Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Sikhism are examples of this type of religion.
What is universalizing?
Name an ancient cultural hearth.
What is Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia, Andean America, Nile River Valley, Indus River Valley, Ganges River, West Africa, Yellow River Valley?