Culture
Diffusion
Vocabulary
Religion
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200

A ____ culture is a type of culture practiced by relatively small, homogenous populations in particular areas.  

Folk

200

____________ diffusion is the idea, innovation, or item spreads rapidly from person to person.

Contagious

200

A place of origin for a widespread cultural trend or innovation

Hearth

200

A _____ religion is a religion that worships only one god.

Monotheistic 

200

A common language used to communicate from people of Native languages

Lingua Franca

400

____ culture is found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite difference in personal characteristics.

Popular

400

_________ diffusion is the spread of ideas through physical movement of people.

Relocation

400

A behavior heavily discouraged by a culture

Cultural taboo

400

Is Christianity a universalizing religion or an ethnic religion?

Universalizing

400

The killing of racial or ethnic group by another racial or ethnic group

Ethnic Cleansing 

or

Genocide

600

The expansion of economic, political, social, and cultural processes to the point they become global in scale.

Globalization

600

The spread of religions like Christianity and Islam is an example of __________ diffusion.

Relocation

600

The repetitive act of group performed to such an extent it becomes a characteristic of the group.

Custom

600

This religion began in Southwest Asia and diffused into nearby areas and Northern Africa.

Islam

600

A neighborhood that retains cultural distinction from a larger area

Ethnic enclave

800

French, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, and English are still spoken in many parts of Africa. This is a result of ________.

Colonialism

800

Hip-hop music spreading from the rougher parts of the Bronx and Brooklyn to pretty much everywhere in the United States is an example of ___________ diffusion.

Hierarchical

800

Visible imprints of human activity and culture on the landscape

Cultural Landscape

800

This type of religion does not seek converts and only diffuses through people of ethnic heritage.

ethnic religion 

800

The belief that one's own culture/ethnic group is superior to others and judges other groups

Ethnocentrism 

1000

The idea that a person’s beliefs and actions should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own culture.

Cultural relativism

1000

A boy seeing ice hockey on tv and then going outside and beginning to hit a stone with a stick into a makeshift goal is an example of _________ diffusion.

Stimulus

1000

The theory that two cultures will become more alike the more they interact.

Cultural convergence

1000

Which religion that we talked about in class is polytheistic?

Hinduism

1000

The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.

acculturation