Unit Three AP Exam Flashcards
Folk Culture
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
Popular Culture
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Ethnocentrism
The belief that one’s own culture is the best or better than other cultures.
Contagious Diffusion
The rapid, widespread of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Stimulus Diffusion
The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
Relocation Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend that through the bodily movement of people from one place to another.
Hierarchical Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places.
Acculturation
The process of adjustment to the dominant culture while retaining features of a folk culture.
Assimilation
The process by which one cultural group becomes integrates into the larger more dominant culture.
Multiculturalism
The presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
Toponym
The term for a place name.
Creole Language
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the indigenous language of the people being dominant.
Lingua Franca
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
Dialects
A regional variation of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
Isoglosses
A b
Extinct Languages
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used/
Pidgin Language
A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communication among speakers of two different languages.
Isoglosses
A boundary that separates regions in which different languages usages predominate.
Official Language
The language adopted for the use by the government for the conduct of business and publication documents.
Extinct Languages
A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.
Isolated Languages
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
Common Language Families
Two Largest families Indo-European 46.5% Sino-Tibetan 20.1%
Universalising Religions
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people to all people, not just those living in a certain location.
Ethnic Religions
A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated.
