APHugo vocab 1

Cultural hearth

Birthplace of major custom, religion

Cultural relativism

Viewing another culture from that cultures viewpoint

Ethnocentrism

Judging cultures by your own culture

Cultural landscape

Geographic area changed by people

Sequent occupance

How humans have occupied and modified a region over time

Expansion diffusion

Ideas spread outward but stay strong at hearth

Hierarchical diffusion

Ideas from up top travel down

Stimulus diffusion

Concept spreads but is adapted to each culture

Relocation diffusion

People move carrying their culture

Creolization

Social and language of different cultures mix into a new culture

Lingua Franca

A language used to communicate over language barriers

Dialect

Regional variety of language

Isogloss

Geo boundary of a linguistic feature

Universalizing religion

Religion accepting and ready for everyone

Ethnic religion

A religion tied to an ethnicity

Acculturation

Cultural modification by adapting traits form another culture

Assimilation

Big culture eating little one

Syncretism

Blending of cultures and religion into one

Multiculturalism

Multiple cultures in one country coexisting

Popular culture

Common culture in a society

Folk culture

Common culture in a rural and small society

Cultural divergence

cultural groups become more diff

Cultural convergence

Cultural groups becoming more similar

Centripetal forces

Language religion ethnicity bringing people together

Centrifugal forces

Language religion ethnicity pushing people apart