unit 3

Question 1

material culture

Answer 1

physical objects, tangible, can be “used”

Question 2

non-material culture

Answer 2

within your mind, non tangible (traditions, ideals, rules)

Question 3

ethnocentrism

Answer 3

seeing someone’s culture from your culture, judging them

Question 4

culture relativism

Answer 4

seeing someone’s culture from their cultures perspective, not agreeing but understanding their situation

Question 5

cultural traits

Answer 5

food, architecture, land use

Question 6

cultural landscape

Answer 6

visual modifications done by humans on the landscape that reflect their identities

Question 7

sequent occupancy

Answer 7

the ability to see who has been in that land before by the cultural landscape

Question 8

land use

Answer 8

modification on the land and how its being used

agriculture, industrial, residential, transportation, commerical

Question 9

place

Answer 9

physical enviorment and build landscapes

Question 10

place making

Answer 10

a group of people getting together to build things to fit their needs and benefits —> unifies the community

Question 11

sense of place

Answer 11

how people connect with the enviorment and howe they feel of the place

Question 12

placelessness

Answer 12

everything looks the same and differentiating different places is difficult

Question 13

built enviorment

Answer 13

the enviorment thst has been built by humans that shapes the area —> creates sense of place and cultural landscape

Question 14

centripetal forces

Answer 14

forces that pull people together

Question 15

centrifugal forces

Answer 15

forces that pull places apart

Question 16

relocation diffusion

Answer 16

moving away from the hearth, number of people remain the same but hearth is weakened

Question 17

stimulus diffusion

Answer 17

diffusion where the idea is spread to another place but is modified to fit their needs

Question 18

contagious diffusion

Answer 18

expansion diffusion where there is contact between people

Question 19

hierarchical diffusion

Answer 19

diffusion that occurs from larger population/power to lower

Question 20

creolization

Answer 20

convergence of cultures —> connected to colonization

Question 21

lingua franca

Answer 21

a language that is largely used around the world for communication, “traders language” (english)

Question 22

diaspora

Answer 22

dispersion of people form the home land

Question 23

urbanization

Answer 23

making an area more urban and adding in things like tall buildings, businesses, service goods etc.

Question 24

globalization

Answer 24

interconnecting of people around the world

Question 25

time-space model

Question 26

universalizing religion

Answer 26

religions that are practiced around the world and are open to new members, spread through both expansion and relocation sikhism, buddhism, islam, christianity

Question 27

christianity

Answer 27

universalizing, eastern mediterranean, temple, bible

Question 28

islam

Answer 28

universalizing, eastern mediterranean , mosque, quran

Question 29

buddhism

Answer 29

universalizing, pagoda, south east asia

Question 30

sikkhism

Answer 30

universalizing, northwest india, golden temple

Question 31

ethnic religion

Answer 31

religions that are not open to spread around the world and tend to be mostly at the hearth, usually not spread constantly; spread through relocation

Question 32

judaism

Answer 32

ethnic, israel, synagogue

Question 33

hinduism

Answer 33

ethnic, north west india, temple

Question 34

acculturation

Answer 34

culture adapts certain traits of another culture (original culture is not lost)

Question 35

assimilation

Answer 35

when an individual or group adopts the cultural norms of another group in society

Question 36

syncretism

Answer 36

fusion, blending or meshing of different beliefs into a unified system

Question 37

multiculturalism

Answer 37

coexistence of multiple cultures within an area (US)