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15 Cards in this Set
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How many factors that define a culture? |
Eight |
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What is the factors that define a culture? |
1.) Food/shelter 2.) Religion 3.) Relationships to family and others 4.) language 5.) Education 6.) Security/protection 7.) Political and social organizations 8.) Creative expression |
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What is culture? |
Total of knowlege and behaviors shared and passed on by members of a group, the society, and ethnic group. |
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What is culture change and exchange? |
Innovation, Diffusion, Cultural hearth, and Acculration |
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What is Innovation? |
Creating something new from existing technology and resources in order to meet a need. Ex. baskets or clay pots invented for storage. |
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What is Diffusion? |
Ideas or inventions spread when people of different societies ( or their ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior) come into contact with one another. Due to electronic technology such as television and the internet, ideas may spread quickly |
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What is Cultural hearth |
Site of origination of ideas, materials, and technology. Ex. Tigris and Euphrates River valleys |
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What is Acculturation? |
When society changes because it accepts or adopts an Innovation. Ex. Wearing blue jeans instead of traditional clothing. |
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How many languages are in this world today? |
3,000 and 6,500 |
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What are languages evolve from? |
From earlier languages |
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What did English evolve from? |
Western Germanic which evolved from Balto-salvo-Germanic |
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How does languages diffuse? |
They spread through trade routes, invented, blend of more than one language, and immigration
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How do culturals express themselves? |
performing arts: music, dance, theater, and flim, Visual arts: architecture, painting, sculpture, and textiles, and oral and written literature: poems, folk tales, and stories |
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What is push factors? |
People leave their homeland and move to another region |
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What is pull factor? |
Draw or attract people to another location |
