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35 Cards in this Set
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Cultural Landscape
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A combination of features like language, religion, economic features, and physical features.
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Vernacular Region
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A place people believe exists as part of their cultural identity.
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This is also known as a perceptual region.
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Globalization
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The force or process that involves the entire world resulting in making something worldwide.
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Cultural Hearth
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The place from which something originates.
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Relocation Diffusion
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The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.
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Hierarchal Diffusion
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The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places.
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Contagious Diffusion
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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic the population.
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Stimulus Diffusion
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The spread of an underlying principle, even if the characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse.
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Folk Culture
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Practiced by small homogeneous groups in isolated rural areas. Examples if this is wearing a Sarong in Malaysia or a Sari in India.
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Popular Culture
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Found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits. An example of this is wearing jeans in the U.S..
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Official Language
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The language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, like road signs, money, and stamps.
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Dialect
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A regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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Language Families
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A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.
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Creolized Language
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A language that results from the mixing of the colonizers' language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
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Extinct Languages
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Once used languages that are no longer read or spoken in daily activities by anyone in the world.
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Isolated Languages
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A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.
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Lingua Franca
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A language if international communication.
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Multi-Lingual States
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States with multiple spoken languages.
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Problems can arise at the boundary between two languages in a single state.
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Universalizing Religion
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A religion that attempts to be global and to appeal to all people no matter where in the world they may live.
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Ethnic Religion
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A religion the appeals primarily to one group of people living in one place.
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Secularism
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The principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries.
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Branch
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A large and fundamental division within a religion.
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Sect
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A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.
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Monotheism
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The belief that there is only one god.
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Polytheism
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The belief that there is more than one god or diety.
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Animism
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Belief that objects, such as plants and stones or natural events like thunderstorms or earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.
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Religious Hearths and Diffusion Patterns
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Christianity: Israel ~ Europe and The Americas.
Islam: Saudi Arabia ~ North Africa and Southwest Asia. Buddhism: Nepal ~ East and Southeast Asia. |
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Sacred Structures
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Physical "anchors" of a religion.
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These are the places of worship.
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Sacred Spaces
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These spaces include burial of the dead and religious settlements.
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Hierarchal Religions
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These religions have well defined geographic structures and organizes territory into local administrative units.
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Locally Autonomous Religion
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These religions are self-sufficient and interaction among communities is confined to little more than loose cooperation and shared ideas.
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Fundamentalism
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Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion/branch, denomination, or sect.
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Ethnicity
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Identity with a group of people who share cultural traditions of a particular homeland it hearth.
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Race
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Identity with a group who share a biological ancestor.
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Apartheid
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The physical separation of different races into divergent geographic areas.
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