Woodrow
The spread of information, ideas, behaviors, and other aspects of culture from their hearths to wider areas is known as
Diffusion
What is it called when there are certain public or private places reserved for one gender or another?
Gendered Spaces
What languages are more closely related and have more similarities?
Language Groups
What is the geographic origin of a cultural trait called?
Cultural Hearth
What are a bunch of languages that all came from the same ancient language?
Language Families
What is it called when a minority group integrates so fully into the dominant culture that they lose their original cultural identity over time.
Assimilation
Someone who supports a particular party, person, or set of ideas is called what?
Adherent
What is the process called where two or more cultural traditions blend, creating a new and distinct cultural trait, idea, or practice.
Syncretism
This describes societies where multiple distinct cultural groups coexist and are supported without being forced to blend or assimilate into one dominant culture
Multiculturalism
People’s perception of a place is called?
Sense of Place
What brings people together and unifies a neighborhood, society, or country?
Centripetal Force
What is the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale?
Globalization
What are forces that threaten the cohesion of a neighborhood, society, or country?
Centrifugal Force
What is the process whereby religion becomes a less dominant force in everyday life than it was in the past?
Secularization
What is it called when a group of people in one culture adopts traits from another culture?
Acculturation
What is it called when an underlying idea spreads but changes as it adapts to new cultures? (adapted versions)
Stimulus Diffusion
What is the rapid, widespread diffusion of an idea or innovation through a population called? (peer-to-peer)
Contagious diffusion
What is it called when an idea spreads outward from its hearth while remaining strong there? (Religion)
Expansion Diffusion
What is it called when people move and bring their culture with them? (Ethnic Neighborhoods)
Relocation Diffusion
What is a mutually understood language around the world?
Lingua Franca
What is the spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power called? (Goes from Top to bottom)
Hierarchical Diffusion
What are the two categories of religion?
Universalizing and Ethnic Religion
What are the 5 ways we can see Contemporary Cultural diffusion?
Media,Technological Changes,Politics,Economics, Social Relationships
What is it called when one group of people lived in a place before the one now?
Sequent Occupancy
What are the 4 Things that make up Culture?
Religion, Age, Language, Ethnicity