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?
Folk (local) Culture
what is rural, ethnically homogenous culture that is deeply connected to the local land?
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?
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?
Colonialism
What is the act of forcefully controlling a foreign territory, which becomes known as a colony?
Imperialism
What is the motivating impulse to control greater amounts of territory?
Cultural relativism
What is an approach to understanding other cultures that seeks to understand individuals and cultures from a wider perspective of cultural logic?
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?
Culture hearths
what are the places of origin for popular trends?
Universalizing Religion
What is a religion that actively seeks new members and believes it's message has universal importance and application?
Ethnocentrism
What is an approach to understanding other cultures that evaluates them from the perspective of the observer’s culture?
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?
Centripetal Force
What is a force that brings people together and unifies a neighborhood, society, or country?
Centrifugal force
What is a force that threatens the cohesion of a neighborhood, society, or country?
Ethnic religion
A religion identified with a particular ethnic or tribal group that does not seek converts
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?
Assimilation
What occurs when an ethnic or immigrant group blends in with the host culture and loses many culturally distinctive traits?
Syncretism
What is the blending of beliefs, ideas, practices, and traits, especially in a religious context?
Creolization
What is the linguistic process where languages converge and create new languages and forms of communication?
Lingua Franca
what is a language of communication and commerce spoken across a wide area where it is not a mother tongue?
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?
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?
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?
Hierarchical diffusion
What occurs when ideas leapfrog from one important person, community, or city to another, bypassing other persons, communities, or rural areas?
Stimulus diffusion
What occurs when a specific trait is rejected, but the underlying idea is accepted?