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Acculturation
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a specific form of cultural diffusion in which a subordinate culture adopts many of the cultural traits of a more powerful culture.
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Diffusion
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the spreading of a cultural trait (that is, material object, idea, or behavior pattern) from one society to another.
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Innovations
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changes brought about by the recombination of already existing items within a culture.
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Invention
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a new combination of existing cultural features.
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Linked changes
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changes in one part of a culture brought about by changes in other parts of the culture.
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Marginal people
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Non-mainstream people who live at the fringes of their own culture.
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Modernization theory
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the theory that explains economic development in terms of the inherent sociocultural differences between the rich and the poor.
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World systems theory
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an attempt to explain levels of economic development in terms of the exploitation of the poor by the rich nations of the world, rather than in terms of the innate socioeconomic characteristics of each.
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