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Popular Culture

What is heterogeneous culture that is more influenced by key urban areas and quick to adopt new technologies; the opposite of a local culture?

100

Folk (local) Culture

what is rural, ethnically homogenous culture that is deeply connected to the local land?

100

Material Culture

What is the physical, visible object made and used by members of a cultural group including buildings, furniture, clothing, food, artwork, and musical instruments?

100

Nonmaterial Culture

What are intangible elements of culture including a wide range of beliefs, values, myths, and symbolic meanings passed from generation to generation within a given society?

100

Colonialism

What is the act of forcefully controlling a foreign territory, which becomes known as a colony?

200

Imperialism

What is the motivating impulse to control greater amounts of territory?

200

Cultural relativism

What is an approach to understanding other cultures that seeks to understand individuals and cultures from a wider perspective of cultural logic?

200

Cultural landscape

What are the built forms that cultural groups create in inhabiting Earth-farm fields, cities, houses, and so on-and the meaning, values, representations, and experiences associated with those forms?

200

Culture hearths

what are the places of origin for popular trends?

200

Universalizing Religion

What is a religion that actively seeks new members and believes it's message has universal importance and application?

300

Ethnocentrism

What is an approach to understanding other cultures that evaluates them from the perspective of the observer’s culture?

300

Multiculturalism

What is a set of policies that promote the active participation and inclusion of minority groups in national histories, national politics and cultural institutions with the goal of embracing difference within society?

300

Centripetal Force

What is a force that brings people together and unifies a neighborhood, society, or country?

300

Centrifugal force

What is a force that threatens the cohesion of a neighborhood, society, or country?

300

Ethnic religion

A religion identified with a particular ethnic or tribal group that does not seek converts

400

Acculturation

What occurs when an ethnic or immigrant group adopts enough of the ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially?

400

Assimilation

What occurs when an ethnic or immigrant group blends in with the host culture and loses many culturally distinctive traits?

400

Syncretism

What is the blending of beliefs, ideas, practices, and traits, especially in a religious context?

400

Creolization

What is the linguistic process where languages converge and create new languages and forms of communication?

400

Lingua Franca

what is a language of communication and commerce spoken across a wide area where it is not a mother tongue?

500

Relocation Diffusion

What occurs when individuals or groups with a particular idea or practice migrate from one location to another, thereby bringing the idea or practice to their new homeland?

500

Expansion diffusion

What occurs when ideas or practices spread throughout a population, from area to area in a snowballing process, so that the total number of knowers or users and the area of occurrence increase?

500

Contagious diffusion

What is the wavelike spread of ideas in the manner of a contagious disease or forest fire, moving throughout space without regard for hierarch?

500

Hierarchical diffusion

What occurs when ideas leapfrog from one important person, community, or city to another, bypassing other persons, communities, or rural areas?

500

Stimulus diffusion

What occurs when a specific trait is rejected, but the underlying idea is accepted?