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11 Cards in this Set
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Acculturation
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Major culture changes that people are forced to make as a consequence of intensive, firsthand contact between societies.
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Diffusion
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The spread of customs or practices from one culture to another.
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Genocide
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The extermination of one people by another, often in the name of "progress," either as a deliberate act or as the accidental outcome of activities carried out by one people with little regard for their impact on others.
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Integrative mechanisms
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Cultural mechanisms that oppose forces for differentiation in a society; in modernizing societies, they include formal governmental structures, official state ideologies, political parties, legal codes, labor and trade unions, and other common-interest associations.
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Modernization
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The process of cultural and socioeconomic change, whereby developing societies acquire some of the characteristics of Western industrialized societies.
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Primary innovation
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The chance discovery of some new principle.
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Revolutionary
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A revitalization movement from within, directed primarily at the ideological system and the attendant social structure of a culture.
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Secondary innovation
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Something new that results from the deliberate application of known principles.
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Structural differentiation
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The division of single traditional roles, which embrace two or more functions (for example, political, economic, and religious) into two or more roles, each with a single specialized function.
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Syncretism
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In acculturation, the blending of indigenous and foreign traits to form a new system.
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Tradition
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In a modernizing society, old cultural practices, which may oppose new forces of differentiation and integration.
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