Vocab Flashcards
(27 cards)
Cultural Traits
Viable and invisible attributes that combine to make up a groups culture
Ex Sociofact Mentifact Artifact
Socio fact
The ways in which a society behaves and organizes institutions
Ex Family School Government
Mentifact
The ideas beliefs values and knowledge of a culture
Ex Religion Language Taboos
Folk/Local/Traditional Culture
small similar groups of people often living in rural areas that are isolated and unlikely to change
Ex Architecture- use natural materials around them like wood mud stone
Global/Popular Culture
large group of people often living in urban places that are inter connected through globalization and social media. It quickly changes, space time compression (connected through tech)
Ex Architecture Use manufactured materials Glass steel drywall concrete
Cultural Taboos
Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture
Ex
Tattoos
Large Age Gap in Relationships
Eating dogs in China
Ethnocentrism
Judging cultures in terms of one’s own standards and often includes belief that one’s culture is better than another
Cultural Landscape
Modification of the landscape by humans
Environmental determinism
Belief that environment shapes culture
Ex Life on a mountain will be a certain way because of environmental factors
Possiblism
Cultural Heritage is as important as the environment. Environment doesn’t shape everything
people create culture
Ex Bridge Canal Damns Roads Sprinklers
Cultural Determinism
Culture is more important than environment
Humans control environment
Sequence Occupancy
The idea that societies or cultural groups leave their cultural imprints when they live in a place, each contributing to the overall cultural landscape in time
Ex Pyramids Ancient Temples Old Sac
Ethnicity
A sense of belonging or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture
Categories Order
Family Branch Group Language Dialect
Indo-European
Largest family with a shared origin (Relocation Diffusion)
Toponym
Study of place names
There is cultural identity in the names
Ex
San Jose
San Diego
Conquered by spanish speaking cultures
Standard Language
Language recognized by the government for school, media etc
Isogloss
region where a particular word is said
Ex y’all in the south
Geographic boundary where certain words are said
Official Language
Endorsed by government as the one language but some countries may have more than one
Ex French and english in canada
Extinct la gauge
A language no longer spoken or read anywhere in the world
Ex Gothic in Crimea
Pidgin Languge
An extremely simplified version of a language used by 2 people that speak different languages
Lingua Franca
a common language used by speakers of two different languages for communication (usually for trade and business)
World Lingua Franca English because of relocation diffusion and colonization
Regionally
Mandarin in China
Swahili in Africa
Creole Language
a pidgin language that develops into a new combines language with native speakers. Frequently developed through settings of colonization or slavery
Ex Cajun/Louisiana Creole: Spoken in Louisiana with traits of English and French
Universalizing Religion
Widely diffused from the hearth through both expansion and relocation diffusion
Not confined to a specific location
Missionaries were put in place to convert people to join
Ex Christianity Islam Buddhism Sikhism
