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What is Discovery?
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Realization and understanding of some set of relationships
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What is Invention?
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Creation of artifacts that put the discovery to use.
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Relationship between DISCOVERY and INVENTION
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Discovery is the knowledge, Invention is the application.
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What is Syncretism?
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The synthesis of existing religious beliefs and practices with new ones introduced from the outside.
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What is Acculturation?
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Rapid diffusion under the influence of a cominant society.
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What is Diffusion?
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The giving and taking of culture among different societies. Borrowing/Modifying/Accepting inventions
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What is Revolution?
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Rapid and extensive change generated from within a society
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What is Stimulus Diffusion?
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When knowledge of a trait from one culture stimulates the invention of a simliar trait in another.
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Explain the theory of classical/unilinear evolutionism.
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Each society passes through three evolutionary cultural stages, 1. Savagery 2. Barbarism 3. Civilization
Some societies progress faster than others **Outdated |
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What is Diffusionism?
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Claims that major cultural advances were made by one or a few societies and spread from there to all other societies. **Outdated
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Historical Particularism
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the American school of cultural evolution that rejected any general theory of culture change but believed that each society could be understood only in reference to its particular history
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Franz Boas
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