Summer Course - Culture Flashcards
(32 cards)
Acculturation
Adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.
Architecture
The art or practice of designing our constructing buildings.
Artifacts
The material manifestation of culture, including tools, housing, systems of land use, clothing etc. “What a culture uses”
Assimilation
The process of a person or group losing the cultural traits that made them distinct from the people around them.
Branch
A major division within a religion.
Caste System
A rigid set of social classes that provides privileges for the higher classes and limits on the lower classes - a person is born in a caste and castes only change upon reincarnation.
Creole or Creolized Language
A language that began as a combination of two other languages and is spoken as the primary language of a group of people.
Cultural Convergence
When two cultures become more similar because of frequent interactions.
Cultural Divergence
When a culture splits into different cultures because of lack of interaction.
Cultural Relativism
The idea that person’s beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture, rather than be judged through the eyes of another culture.
Cultural Relativism
The idea that person’s beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture, rather than be judged through the eyes of another culture.
Custom
Something that a group of people do repeatedly that becomes part of their culture (bowing in Japan)
Dialect
Different forms of the same language used by groups that have some different vocabulary and pronunciations.
Diaspora
The scattering of people from their homeland (Jews from Holy Land)
Ethnic (Folk) Culture
The cultural traditions that are generally held by a specific ethnic group, often localized in a specific area.
Ethnic Religion
A religion that is focused on a single ethnic group (often in a centralized area) that doesn’t attempt to appeal to all people.
Ethnocentrism
Judging people or traditions based on your own cultural standards.
Gender
refers to the cultural difference in how men are treated differently than women.
Indigenous Language
A language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous people.
Indigenous People
The original settlers of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled the area more recently.
Language Extinction
A language that is no longer spoken by anyone as their native language.
Language Family
A collection of languages that are all descended from an original, proto-language.
Lingua Franca
A language that groups of people who don’t speak the same language use to communicate often for trade or business.
Mentifacts
The central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, etc. “What a culture believes.”
