Unit 3 Vocab

Question 1

the process by which people within one culture adopt some of the traits of another while still retaining their own distinct culture

Answer 1

acculturation

Question 2

category of which acculturation in which the interaction of two cultures results in one culture adopting almost all of the customs, traditions, language, and other cultural traits of the other.

Answer 2

assimilation

Question 3

a force that divided a group of people

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centrifugal force

Question 4

a force that unites a group of people

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centripetal force

Question 5

a culture in which people are expected to confirm to collective responsibility within a family and to be obedient and respectful of elderly family members

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collectivist cultures

Question 6

the process by which an idea or cultural traits spreads rapidly among people of all social classes and levels of power

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contagious diffusion

Question 7

the blending of two or more languages that may not include the features of either original language

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creolization

Question 8

the act of adopting elements of another country

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cultural appropriation

Question 9

the process by which cultures become more similar through interaction

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cultural convergence

Question 10

the process by which cultures become less similar due to conflicting beliefs or other barriers

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cultural divergence

Question 11

an area where cultural traits develope and from which cultural traits diffuse

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cultural hearth

Question 12

a natural landscape that has been modified by humans, relflecting their cultural beliefs and values

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cultural landscape

Question 13

a shared standard or pattern that guides the behavior of a group of people

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cultural norm

Question 14

the evalution of a culture by its own standards

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culutral relativism

Question 15

a shared object or cultural practice

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cultural trait

Question 16

the beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies shared by a society and passed down from generation to generation

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culture

Question 17

a separate church organization that unites a number of local congregations

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denomination

Question 18

a viraration of a standard language specific to a gernal area with differences in pronunciation , degree of rapidity in speech word choice and spelling

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dialect

Question 19

the process by which a cultural trait spreads from one place to another over time

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diffusion

Question 20

a cultural landscape within a community of people outside of their area of origin

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ethnic neighborhood

Question 21

the state belonging to a group of people who share a common cultural characteristics

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ethnicity

Question 22

the tendency of ethnic groups to evaluate other groups according to proconvieved ideas originating from their own cultrue

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ethnocentrism

Question 23

the spread of cultural trait outward from where it originated

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expansion diffusion

Question 24

an indiviual’s innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both, or neither

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gender identity

Question 25

a space designed and deliperately incorporated into the landscape to accommadate gender roles

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gendered space

Question 26

the renovations and improvements conforming to middle-class preference

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gentrification

Question 27

the spread of an idea ot trait from a person or place of power or authority to other people or places

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heirachical diffusion

Question 28

the ways in which humans make sense of themselves and how they wish to be viewed by others

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idenitity

Question 29

a language that is unrelated to any other known language

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isolate

Question 30

a distinct system of communication that is the carrier of human thoughts and cultural identity

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language

Question 31

a collection of languages within a language family that shares a common origin and seperated from other branches in the same family several thousand years ago

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language branch

Question 32

a group of languages that share a common ancestral language from a particular hearth, or region of origin

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language family

Question 33

languages within a language branch that shares a common anceerotr in the relatively recent oast and have vocabularies with a high degree of overlap

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language group

Question 34

common language used among speakers of different languages

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lingua franca

Question 35

a situation in which different cultures live together without assimilating

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multiculturalism

Question 36

a journey to a holy place for spiritual reasons

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pilgrimage

Question 37

a community-dirven process in which people collaborate to create a place where they can live,work,play, and learn

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placemaking

Question 38

widely accepted ideas, beliefs, behaviors, and trends within a society, particularly in modern times.

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populare culture

Question 39

a building style that emerged as a reaction to "modern" designs, and values diversity in design

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postmodern architecture

Question 40

a system of spiritual belifs that helps form cultural perceptions, attuides, beliefs, and avalues

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religion

Question 41

the spread of culture traits through the movement of people

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relocation diffusion

Question 42

a relativity small group of people that have seperated from an established denomination

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sect

Question 43

focused on worldly rather than spiritual concepts

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secularized

Question 44

the subjective feelings and memories people associate with a geographic location

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sense of place

Question 45

the process by which a cultural trait or idea spreads to another culture or region but its modified to adapt to the new culture

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stimulus diffusion

Question 46

process of innovatin combining different cultural features into something new

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syncretis

Question 47

building styles that are deeply rooted in a specific place's cultural heritage, utilizing local materials and construction techniques passed down through generations

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traditional architecture

Question 48

the long-establsihed behaviors, beliefs, and practices passed down from generation to generation

Answer 48

traditional culture

Question 49

a religion that tries to appeal to all humans and is open to membership by everyone.

Answer 49

universalizing religion

Question 50

a religion that is closely tied with a particular ethnic group often living in a particular space

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ethnic religion