Culture/Culture Landscape/Language

Acculturation

-Process of social, phychological, and cultural change that stems from 2 culture changes that stems from 2 balancing cultures while adapting to the prevailing culture of society

-an individual acquires and adjusts to balancing 2 cultures

Assimilation

-process of changing to a cultural norms through losing norms aswell as gaining the new rather than holding the other

Contagious Diffusion

-spreads ideas/traits equally without reguard to wealth(disease, religion)

Creole

-When a pidgen language is someone’s first language

Cultural Landscape

-human impact on the physical appearance of a place

-buildings, agriculture, infastructure

Cultural regions

-a geographic region and time sequence (age area) is characterized by shared elements of environment and culture

Culture Trait

-trait of human activity acquired in social life and transmitted by communication.

Dialect

-words unique to a specific region or social group

Folk Culture

-it looks the same on everyone who follows

-little change over time

-isolates

-strong attachment to place

-conservative

-strong on religion

-the cultural practices of small, homogeneous groups living in traditional societies

Hearth

-places where ideas originate from

Hierarchal Diffusion

-cultural diffusion that occurs when influential structures in society encourage the adoption of certain new cultures or cultural aspects

-higher class to lower class

Isogloss

-geographic boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or the use of some morphological or syntactic feature.

Language Convergence

-2 languages join together

-pidgen languages are created this way

Language Divergence

-splitting of one languages because of migration, different expenses, contact with other languages and words borrowed from another language

Language family/Language tree

-languages connected to one another and have a similar basis in winds and phrasing

Lingua franca

-languages spoken by people who have different languages as a main language for business

Loan words

-word adopted from a foreign language with little or no modification

Pidgin Language

-2 or more languages in an area and users combine language to communicate with another user that speaks an original language

Placelessness

-a phenomenon that happened when a place/location loses its distinctiveness or its uniqueness

Populare Cullture

-globalized

-looks different to everyone who follows

-interdependent

-progressive change

-generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output and objects that are dominant

Relocation Diffusion

-happens when people migrate and tale their cultural attributes with them (nashville has hindu temple because of how many people brought their religions)

-picks up/moves

Reverse Hierarchal Diffusion

-process where a trait diffuses from lower to higher classes

Standard Language(Official Lanuguage)

-most common language used

-language the government government does buisness in

Stimulus Diffusion

-spread of an underlying principle even if characteristics itelf doesn’t

-mcdonalds in america sell beef, but india’s mcdonald doesn’t

Taboo

don’ts of a culture

Toponym

-study of geographical names, or place names, of a particular region.