Concepts of Culture
The social behavior and norms found in human societies
What is culture?
Communication, social categories, service, social behavior
What are some cultural differences?
Institutions, customs, skills, dress, tories, music, and way of life of a small, stable, close-knit, usually rural community, tradition controls it
What is folk culture?
Believing in and worship of a power, especially a personal God or gods
What is a religion?
The method of communication,it is spoken or written, and consists of words in a structured manner
What is a language?
This type of culture includes physical objects created by a society, such as tools, buildings, or artwork.
What is material culture? aka Artifacts
A type of geography that deals with the world's regions
What is regional geography?
The social systems that we create culturally
What are sociofacts
A large and fundamental division within a religion or anything in general
What is a branch?
Arabic belongs to this language family
What is afro-asiatic
This process describes how a minority culture adopts traits of a dominant culture while still retaining distinct elements of its own.
Acculturation
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
What is relocation diffusion?
Characteristic acts, behavioral patterns, traditions, and conventions regulating social life
What are customs?
What religion does a synagogue belong to?
What is Judaism?
A language formed by many other languages for the sake of peoples' convenience
What is a creole language?
The identity or feeling of belonging to a group, and it is part of a person's self conception and self perception
What is cultural identity?
Most commonly used Lingua franca
What is English
A landscape containing various resources that the associated people define as heritage resources
What is an ethnographic landscape?
Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism
What are the 4 main religions on Earth?
English is a part of this particular language branch of the Indo-European language family.
What is Germanic languages branch (remember the Norse influence!)
The mental and spiritual aspects that shape identity and worldview, such as language, religion, philosophies, and concepts of right and wrong
Mentifacts
Stimulus, contagious, hierarchical, and expansion diffusion
What are examples of expansion diffusion?
Provides better products, services, and consumer experiences for people
What is the importance of glocalization?
Shintoism and Buddhism
What are the main religions in Japan?
this branch includes languages such as Cornish, Welsh, and Gaelic
What is celtic