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APHG U3 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Culture | The shared beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies of a society |
| Artifact | Physical objects created by a culture |
| Popular Culture | A widespread behavior etc of an ordinary person in society at a given time, changes quickly. Like TRENDS (hetero) |
| Traditional Culture | Small groups with similar mindsets, usually isolated and unlikely to change |
| Cultural Norms | Agreed upon cultural practices or standards |
| Ethnocentrism | The Draco Malfoy who judges other's cultures and believes theirs is better |
| Cultural Landscape | Physical land modified by humans that reflects the culture |
| Ethnicity | A sense of belonging or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture |
| Ethnic Neighborhoods | People of the same ethnicity that cluster together in a specific location, typically within a major city |
| Toponyms | The names of places |
| Centripetal Forces | Characteristics that unify a country and provide stability |
| Centrifugal Forces | Characteristics that divide a country and create instability, conflict, and violence |
| Relocation Diffusion | The spread of a cultural trait through the MIGRATION of people |
| Contagious Diffusion | A cultural trait spreads rapidly, widely, and continuously through the close contact between people (SICKNESS) |
| Hierarchal Diffusion | The spread of cultural traits go from the top of the SOCIAL LADDER to the bottom (affecting the rich before the less well known etc.) |
| Stimulus Diffusion | People adapt a cultural trait to fit their culture, McDONALDS |
| Lingua Franca | A common language used by speakers of two different languages for communication (like English) |
| Creolization | The blending of two or more languages |
| Cultural Convergence | The process by which cultures become more similar through interaction |
| Cultural Divergence | The process by which cultures become less similar due to conflicting beliefs or other barriers |
| Acculturation | The process by which people within one culture adopt some of the traits of another while still retaining their own distinct culture |
| Assimilation | A category of acculturation in which the interaction of two cultures results in one culture adopting almost all of the customs, traditions, and other traits of the other culture |
| Syncretism | The blending of two or more cultural traditions/beliefs to create a new cultural form |
| Multiculturalism | A situation in which different cultures live together without assimilating |
| Cultural Appropriation | The act of adopting elements of another culture |
| Language Family | Largest group of related languages which are connected through a common, ancient ancestry and trace back to common hearth |
| Language Branch | A collection of languages that share a common origin from thousands of years ago. They were separated from other languages in their family and now are distinctive although related |
| Language Groups | Collections of languages that share a more recent past with similar vocabularies and some overlap |
| Universalizing Religions | Religions that try to appeal to all humans and are open t membership by everyone |
| Ethnic Religions | A religion that is closely tied with a particular ethnic group often living in a particular place |
| Nationality | A person's legal membership or allegiance to a specific country or state (shared citizenship, cultural traits, sense of belonging) |
| Race | A social construct used to categorize people based on (perceived) physical characteristics |
| Fundamentalism | The strict, literal interpretation of the basic principles of a religion |
| Proselytize | Seeking to convert people from one religion to another |
| Official Language | A language formally designated by a country's government to be used officially |
| Standard Language | The form of a language used for government business, education, and mass communication |
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