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Unit 3 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acculturation | The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another. |
| Agnosticism | The view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. |
| Atheism | Disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods. |
| Animism | Attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena. |
| Assimilation | The complete integration of someone of minority status into a dominant culture. |
| Centrifugal Force | Attitudes that tend to divide a state. |
| Centripetal Force | Attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state. |
| Universalizing Religion | Religion that attempts to be global, to appeal to all people, wherever they live in the world, not just those of one culture or location. |
| Taboo | Prohibition imposed by social custom or as a protective measure. |
| Sequent Occupance | Describes the current cultural landscape of a region as a combination of all the people which have 'sequentially' occupied that region from the past to the present. |
| Sense of Place | A wide range of connections between people and places that develops based on the place meanings and attachment a person has for a particular setting. |
| Syncretism | The amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. |
| Sect | A group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong. |
| Possibilism | The theory in geography that human behavior, and therefore culture, is not merely determined by the environment but by human agency, as a theory it is directly opposed to determinism. |
| Pidgin Language | A grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common. |
| Official Language | The language or one of the languages that is accepted by a country's government, is taught in schools, and used in courts of law. |
| Multilingual | In or using several languages. |
| Monolingual | Speaking only one language. |
| Lingua Franca | A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different. |
| Isolated Language | Language that has no demonstratable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship to any other known language. |
| Diaspora | The dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland. |
| Diffusion | The movement of anything. |
| Distance Decay | Describes how the strength of a relationship between people, places, or systems decreases as the separation between them increases. |
| Ethnic Enclave | Geographical area where a particular ethnic group is spatially clustered and socially and economically distinct from the majority group. |
| Ethnicity | The quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent. |
| Ethnocentrism | Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture. |
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