Studied by 8 peopleAcculturation
2 cultures come together through migration
Adherents
People who are loyal to a belief, religion organization
Artifacts
Visible objects and technologies that a culture creates
Assimilation
When 1 culture adopts almost all cultural traits of the other
Buddhism
Oldest universalizing religion based on teaching of siddartha Gautama
Centrifugal force
A force that divides a group of people
Centripetal force
A force that brings a group of people together
Christianity
Religion based on teachings of Jesus
Collectivist cultures
People are expected to conform to collective responsibility within a family to be respectful to elders
Contagious diffusion
When an idea/cultural traits spread adjacently
Creolization
The process by which two languages converge
Culture
Refers to the beliefs, practices, behaviors and technologies shared by a society
Cultural Appropriation
Adopting elements of another culture
Cultural convergence
As a culture interacts with another they become similar
Cultural divergence
Increased interaction between two cultures with conflicting beliefs or other barriers causing cultures to become less similar
Cultural hearth
A place that innovation and a major culture stems from
Cultural landscape
A natural landscape that has been modified by humans reflecting their own cultural values
Cultural norms
The shared standards and patterns that guide the behavior of a group of people
Cultural relativism
Evaluation of a culture solely by its unique standards
Cultural trait
Objects shared by a group, such as food and clothing, as well as language and other shared cultural practices
Dialect
A variation of the standards language in a certain religion
Diffusion
The process by which cultural traits spreads from 1 place to another
Denominations
Separate organizations that unite local congregations
Ethnicity
A state of belonging to a grouping who share common cultural characteristics
Ethnic neighborhoods
Cultural landscape within communities of people outside their areas of origin
Ethnic religion
Religion closely tied with an ethnic group
Ethnocentrism
Tendency of ethnic groups to evaluate other groups according to preconcibes ideas originating from their own culture
Expansion diffusion
When an aspect of culture spreads outwards from where it originated
Gender identity
The way someone identifies
Gendered spaces
Certain spaces designed to accommodate gender roles
Gentrification
Renovations/improvements conforming to the middle class preference
Hierarchical diffusion
Spread of an idea/trait through a person or place of power
Hinduism
South Asian mostly Indian religion
Identity
How humans make sense of themselves and how they wished to be viewed by others
Islam
2nd largest religion, based on Mohamed, messenger of Allah
Judaism
Ancient ethnic religion Hebrew bible
Language
The carrier of human thoughts and cultural identities
Language branch
Collection of languages within a family that share common origin
Language family
Largest grouping of related languages including those languages that share a common ancestral language
Language group
Languages within a branch with a common ancestorin the relatively past and shares common Vocab
Lingua franca
Common language used by speakers of different languages
Mentifacts
The central enduring elements of a culture that reflect its shared ideas
Multicultural
When diverse cultures exist within space
Pilgrimage
A journey to a holy sight for spiritual reasons
Placemaking
A community process in which people create a place where they can live
Popular culture
Widespread behaviors, beliefs, and practices or ordinary people in society at a given point in time
Post-modern architecture
Emerged in 1960s, emphasized form, structures and materials
Religion
A system of a spiritual beliefs
Safe spaces
Places of acceptance for people
Sect
A relatively small group that has separated from an established denomination
Secularized
Not religious
Sense of place
When people fill a geographic location with meaning by connecting memories to it
Sequent occupancy
The theory that successive societies leave behind their cultural imprint
Sikhism
Newest universal religion founded by guru Nanak
Sociofacts
Structures and organizations that influence social behavior
Stimulus diffusion
Idea behind cultural trait stimulates growth
Syncretism
When traits from 2+ cultures blend together to create new cultural values
Third place
Communal place separate from work and home
Toponímica
Places names
Traditional architecture
Established buildings
Traditional culture
Established buildings
Traditional culture
Long established behaviors beliefs and practices passed down from generation to generation
Universalizing religion
Attempts to appeal to a wide variety of people are open to membership by all
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