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Unit 3
Unit 3 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| culture | the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. |
| habit | A repetitive act performed by a particular individual |
| custom | The frequent repetition of an act |
| folk culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small |
| popular culture | Culture found in a large heterogenous society. Spreads quickly and changes frequently. |
| sequent occupance | the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place |
| cultural landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape |
| diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time |
| relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. |
| expansion diffusion | the spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process |
| hierarchal diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places |
| contagious diffusion | distance-controlled spreading of an idea through a local population by contact from person to person. Similarly to a disease, it spreads rapidly from one source to others from person to person. |
| Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle |
| dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary |
| lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |
| Toponym | The name given to a portion of Earth's surface. |
| ethnocentricity | believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group |
| religious branch | A large and fundamental division within a religion |
| religious denomination | A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body. |
| religious sect | A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination. |
| assimilation | process of a minority group or culture adopting the dominant groups culture. |
| acculturation | balancing of two cultures |
| Syncretism | when aspects of different cultures blend together to form something new and unique. |
| language group | a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past. |
| language branch | collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago. |
| Language Family | collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history. |
| Isogloss | a line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features. |
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