Culture
The smallest unit of culture
Cultural Trait
The physical artifacts that humans have created that form the landscape...what do we call this?
The Built Environment
Shinto is a religion that is primarily found in which country?
Japan
Define diffusion
Spreading (culture)
Give me an example of an adage
When life gives you lemons...
Win some, lose some
Early bird catches the worm
Behaviors that are strongly discouraged by a culture
Taboos
When you can tell that different ethnic groups have lived in/moved out of the same place over time and left cultural imprints on the area...This is called...
Sequent Occupancy
Name one element of the Christian cultural landscape
Church, cross, orthodox domes, steeples,
Define hierarchical diffusion
Anything that is the spread of culture from wealthy/powerful/dominant/famous individuals to the masses
Speaking one common language at work, and a different native language at home is called.. The language at work is called a...
Lingua Franca
Give me an example of a material cultural artifact
Clothes, food, art, anything tangible that is representative of a culture
High populations of an immigrant ethnic group in a rural area... this is called a(n)...
Ethnic Island
Where is the cultural hearth of Hinduism?
India/South Asia
Give an example of contagious diffusion
Jazz music spreading via musicians
Give an example of reverse hierarchical diffusion
Blue jeans, cell phones
The process of re-embracing the uniqueness and authenticity of a place
Neolocalism
The boundary line between two dialects...
Isogloss
Give an example of a blue law in the United States
Give an example of expansion diffusion
The internet, movies, books, social media, etc.
When speakers of two different languages develop a simplified mixture of the two languages, this is called a...
Pidgin
Give an example of a centripetal force
Common language, religion, peace, economic prosperity, ethnic unity, shared history, tolerance, equality under the law, charismatic leader, etc.
Name a language that is on the Indo-European Language Tree
What language is primarily associated with Islam?
Arabic
Give an example of Stimulus Diffusion
McDonalds changing menu across the world
What is the most commonly native spoken language in the world?.... (Not the most commonly studied)
Chinese - most spoken
English - most studied