Unit 3 Vocab

Question 1

Cultural Complex

Answer 1

a group of culture traits coming from one culture

(online)

Question 2

Popular Culture

Answer 2

various cultural traits that are diffused quickly over large areas and are adopted by multiple groups

Question 3

Centripetal Forces

Answer 3

unify a group

Question 4

Acculturation

Answer 4

assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one.

Question 5

Lingua Franca

Answer 5

a languge mutually understood and used in trade by people who have different native languages

Question 6

Apartheid

Answer 6

laws in south africa that physically seperated different races

(Not In Effect Anymore)

Question 7

Indigeonous Culture

Answer 7

members of ethnic groups live on ancestral land and have own cultural traits, traditions and languages

Question 8

Artifacts

Answer 8

physical, tangible items that one can use their senses to understand

Question 9

Language Family

Answer 9

a collection of languages relating to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history

Question 10

Menifacts

Answer 10

concepts and ideas of a culture that are not tangible but
are often shared amongst people with the same culture

Question 11

Centrifugal Forces

Answer 11

divide a group

Question 12

Multiculturism

Answer 12

Several cultures coexisting in one society

Question 13

Syncretism

Answer 13

Blending of several traditions

Question 14

Cultural Realms

Answer 14

larger area that is
made up of several regions

Question 15

Habit

Answer 15

repetitive act that an individual completes

Question 16

Cultural Hearth

Answer 16

Original place or source of culture

Question 17

Taboo

Answer 17

behaviors discouraged by a culture

Question 18

Ethnocentrism

Answer 18

evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture.

Question 19

Creole Language

Answer 19

language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language and the indigionous people’s language

Question 20

Nativism

Answer 20

Beliefs against immigration, favoring native born people

Question 21

Cultural Reletivism

Answer 21

Not judging a culture by there beliefs

(online)

Question 22

Ethnicity

Answer 22

identity within a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions

Question 23

Custom

Answer 23

repetitive act that a GROUP completes to the point where it becomes a characteristic of the group

Question 24

Sociofacts

Answer 24

ways people organize their society and relate to each other

Question 25

Assimilation

Answer 25

the process of resembling the dominant culture’s values, beliefs, and belaviors

Question 26

Nationality

Answer 26

Allegence to a place because you live there or are born there

Question 27

Folk Culture

Answer 27

group of people who often live in rural settings that are isolated from others leading to slower changes