Pop/Folk Culture
The biggest hinderance to this culture is lack of access to TV or internet.
Folk Culture
The spread of a cultural trait through the migration of people.
Relocation diffusion
The visible imprint of humans on the natural environment.
Cultural landscape
Visible and invisible attributes that combine to make up a group’s culture.
Cultural traits
Trying to understand cultural practices of other groups in their own cultural context instead of judging them by your own cultural standards.
This culture is found among small, homogeneous groups.
Folk Culture
The origin point for cultures, languages, and religions. Today they are typically large cities.
Cultural hearth
The phenomenon where distinct cultures evolve and separate over time, taking different paths in terms of beliefs and values.
Cultural divergence
The objects, material items, and technologies created by a culture, or simply, things people make
Artifacts
A feeling of superiority regarding one's own culture or way of life.
Ethnocentrism
As cultural traits spread they are altered/modified due to a cultural barrier, taboo, or difference.
Stimulus diffusion
The process by which two or more cultures begin to blend together, resulting in the sharing of values, beliefs, customs, and behaviors.
Cultural convergence
The non-material aspects of a culture, including beliefs, thoughts, ideas, values, and behavior patterns.
Mentifacts
Characteristics that unify a country and provide stability, such as common language, religion, or ethnicity.
Centripetal forces
A cultural trait spreads rapidly, widely, and continuously from its hearth through close contact between people.
Contagious diffusion
A person who favors those born in his country and is opposed to immigrants.
Nativist
The ways in which a society behaves and organizes institutions.
Sociofacts
Characteristics that divide a country and create instability, conflict and violence.
Centrifugal forces
Loss of uniqueness of a place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.
Placelessness
The spread of cultural traits from the least interconnected, wealthy, or powerful people/organizations outwards.
Reverse hierarchical diffusion
The blending of cultural traits from two different cultures into a new trait.
Syncretism
The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture (usually a dominant one). Can be forced, such as in the treatment if Native Americans by European settlers.
Assimilation
The “cherry picking” or selecting of certain aspects of a culture and ignoring their original significance for the purpose of belittling it as a trend.
Cultural appropriation