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Occurs when a cultural trait spreads continuously from its hearth through contact among people
Contagious Diffusion
collection of shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by a society.
Culture
a minority group fully adopts the customs, values, and behaviors of a dominant culture.
Assimilation
Where an idea, product, or culture originates.
cultural hearth
occurs when an ethnic or immigrant group moving to a new area adopts the values and practices of the larger group that has received them, while still maintaining major elements of their own culture.
Acculturation
spread of culture outward from the most interconnected places or from centers of wealth and importance
Hierarchical Diffusion
price/gift paid to a groom's father by the bride's father in arranged marriages
Dowry
Acculturation
set of ideas, practices, beliefs, and objects that are prevalent and widely accepted within mainstream society at a given time
Popular culture
When an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group because they have adopted the receiving group's culture
Assimilation
occurs when people in a culture adopt an underlying idea or process from another culture, but modify it for their own purpose
Stimulus Diffusion
A combination of cultural features eg climate, language, architecture, food, religion.
Cultural landscape
A society that actively embraces and supports the presence and expression of diverse cultures
Multiculturalism
When people start practicing each others cultures and cultures become more similar
cultural divergence
process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit
Cultural Appropriation
the diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
Distance Decay
The name for a place - eg DC, Maryland
Toponym
cultural practices should be understood within their own cultural context
Cultural relativism
All cultures become very similar, or the same.
Cultural homogenization
Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.
Ethnocentrism
a blending of two or more cultural or religious traditions
Syncretism
behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture
Taboo
to view one's own culture as superior to other cultures
Ethnocentrism
The term for takeover by empires such as the British Empire.
colonialism or imperialism
the traditional customs, practices, and beliefs of a relatively small, isolated group of people
Folk culture