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24 Cards in this Set
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Acculturation |
is a process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviors of another group. |
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Assimilation |
the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture |
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Cultural adaptation |
new people adapt to the culture of the previously existing people |
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Cultural core/ periphery Pattern |
core-periphery idea that the core houses main economic power of region and the outlying region or periphery houses lesser economic ties |
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Cultural ecology |
the place and location of a specific culture based on ecology |
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Cultural identity |
belief in belonging to a group or certain cultural aspect |
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Cultural landscape |
the landscape in which people have affected by cultural means |
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Cultural Realm |
a group of culture traits |
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Cultural Region |
group of culture realms, in formal, functional, and vernacular |
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Formal-core, periphery |
(Uniform) An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics |
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Functional-node |
Region organized at a node or focal point |
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Vernacular (perceptual)-regional self-awareness |
(Regional self-awareness) A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity |
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Diffusion types; Expansion |
The spread of one feature from one place to another in a snowballing process |
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Diffusion types: Hierarchical |
The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places |
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Diffusion types: Contagious |
The rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population |
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Diffusion types: Stimulus |
The spread of an underlying principle when the characteristic fails to diffuse |
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Diffusion Types: Relocation |
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another |
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Innovation adoption |
Study of how why and at what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture |
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Maladaptive Diffusion |
Diffusion of a process with negative side effects or What works well in one region may not in another |
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Sequent Occupance |
Refers to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint proposed by Derwent Whittlesey |
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Creole |
a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages |
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Dialect |
the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people |
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Indo- European languages |
languages from the indo-european family. Spoken by half of the world's people, and includes, among others, the germanic, romance, and slavic subfamilies. |
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Isogloss |
boundary that seperates regions in which different language uses predominate |
