The process by which a powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
What is Ethnic Cleansing?
100
The process of adjusting to a new environment or situation.
What is Adaptation?
100
The type of culture that is traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous group, living in relative isolation from other groups.
What is Folk Culture?
100
A dramatic increase in the Hispanic population in a given neighborhood.
What is Barrioization?
100
When an individual identifies equally with two or more cultures.
What is Bi- or Multiculturalism?
200
The separation of different races in daily activities.
What is Segregation?
200
The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world unified by improved transportation and communication.
What is Cultural Convergence?
200
The look of housing, the environment house is in, and the popular culture of the time.
What is Architectural Form?
200
Differences between races that cause attitudes of superiority to attach to one race.
What is Racism?
200
An attitude or belief that makes adopting certain innovations or practices unacceptable.
What is a Cultural Barrier?
300
An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background.
What is an Ethnic Neighborhood?
300
The model that describes how economic, political, and cultural power is spatially distributed between dominant core regions and more marginal or dependent semi-peripheral and peripheral regions.
What is the Core-Periphery Model?
300
The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed by a group of people.
What is Material Culture?
300
When new immigrants to a city move to areas occupied by previous immigrants.
What is Invasion and Succession?
300
The accepted and expected patterns of interpersonal relations; the institutions that link individuals and groups - unite a culture; aka sociofacts.
What is a Sociological Subsystem?
400
A politically unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict.
What is a Cultural Shatter Belt?
400
When people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes.
What is Glocalization?
400
Any informal norms, virtues, or values, characterized by being followed through imitation and mild social pressure, but not strictly enforced or put into law.
What are Folkways?
400
An analytical theory that is focused on the interrelationships between sexuality and geographic space.
What is the Queer Theory?
400
The central enduring elements of a culture which expresses its beliefs and values; examples include mythology, literature, religion, etc.
What is a Mentifact?
500
The tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups; the practice of judging another person's culture by the standards of one's own culture.
What is Ethnocentrism?
500
The notion that what happens at one scale is not independent of what happens on the other side of the world.
What is Global-Local Continuum?
500
Diffusion in which image takes precedence over practicality.
What is Maladaptive Diffusion?
500
To construct an identity by first defining the "other" and then defining oneself as "not the other"
What is Identifying Against?
500
The degree of neighborhood or ethnic mixing that induces the former majority group to move out quickly.