Gender and Race
Practices that a group of people routinely follow
What is customs?
What is a heterogeneous population?
A large population of people who differ from each other, including differences of culture, ancestry, and other traits.
What is a homogeneous population
Refers to a group of people that have similar characteristics in ways of culture, genetics, and other traits.
The place of origin that something diffuses from.
What is the hearth?
The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape
What is placelessness?
The process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit
What is cultural appropriation?
What is relocation diffusion?
When people move from their home town and bring their ideas with them.
When you send your wage back to your home country to support your family?
What is remittance?
What members of a local culture produce in terms of art, houses, clothing, sports, dance and foods are all part of ______ culture.
material
An example of this type of diffusion is fashion trends spreading from Paris to other cities, then eventually the general public.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
The US had a policy of ……… during the 1800-1900’s forcibly suppressing Native American customs and replacing them with customs of the dominant culture
Assimilation
A form of diffusion where cultural aspects of one culture are spread throughout the world but are modified.
What is stimulus diffusion?
Seeking out the regional culture and reinvigorating it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world
What is neolocalism?
How quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are through transportation and communication technologies.
Time-Space compression