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Custom
the frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
Folk Culture
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups
Habit
A repetitive act performed by a particular individual
Popular Culture
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
Taboo
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
Terrior
The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes
Creole (creolized language)
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of other people being dominated
Denglish
A combination of German and English
Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Ebonics
A dialect spoken by some African Americans
Extinct Language
A language that was once used by people in daiy activities but is no longer used
Franglais
A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language, a combination of francais and anglais
Isogloss
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usage predominates
Isolated Language
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family
Language
A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning
Language Branch
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years a go. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families and archaeological can confirm theat the branches derived from the same family
Language Family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
Language Group
a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary
Official Language
Languagespokenwithinapoliticalregionformallysanctionedbythegovermnent
Lingua Franca
A language mutually understood and commonly used in tradeby people who have different native languages
Literary Tradition
A labguage that is written as well as spoken
Logogram
A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound
Pidgin Language
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca: used for communications among speakers of two different languages
Received Pronunciation
The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom
Spanglish
A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans
Standard Language
The form of language used for official government business, education, and mass communications
Vulgar Latin
A form of Latin used in daily conversation by Ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents
Agnosticism
Belief that nothing can be known about whether God exists
Animism
Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life
Atheism
Belief that God does not exist
Autonomous Religion
A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally
Branch
A large and fundamental division within a religion
Caste
The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned, according to religious law
Cosmogony
A set of religious beliefs concerning the origins of the universe
Denomination
A division of a branch that unite s a number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body
Ethnic Religion
A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principals are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated
Fundamentalism
Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principals of a religion (or religious branch, denomination, or sect)
Ghetto
During the middle ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews, now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure
Hierarchical Religion
A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control
Missionary
An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion
Monotheism
The doctrine or belief in the existence of only one god
Pagan
A follower of a polytheistic religion
Pilgrammage
A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes
Polytheism
Belief in or worship of more than one god
Sect
A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
Solstice
An astronomical event that happens twice a year resulting in the tilt of the earth and its relationship with the sun leading to the longest and or shortest day of the year
Syncretic
A religion that combines several religions
Universalizing Religion
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location
Apartheid
Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas
Balkanization
A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
Balkanized
Descriptive of a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex long-standing antagonisms toward each other
Blockbusting
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood
Centripedal Force
An attitude that tends to unify people and engance support for a state
Ethnic Cleansing
A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
Ethnicity
Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions
Genocide
The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence
Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality
Nationalilty
Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
Race
Identity with a group of people descended from a biological ancestor
Racism
Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce and inherent superiority of a particular race
Racist
A person who subscribe to the beliefs of racism
Sharecropper
A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over a share of the crops to the landowner
Triangular Slave Trade
A practice primarily during the 18th Century in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa
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