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Unit 3 Chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people |
| Ethnocentrism | Belief in the superiority of one's own culture |
| cultural relativism | Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms |
| Folk culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. |
| Hearth | a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward |
| cultural landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape |
| ethnic enclave | a small area occupied by a distinctive minority culture |
| Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. |
| Time-Space compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems |
| popular culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
| 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 cultural traits through direct or indirect exchange without migration |
| Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places |
| reverse hierarchical diffusion | When a trait spreads from areas of little influence to larger areas. |
| Stimulus Diffusion | a form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place |
| Acculturation | The adoption of larger values and principles of a group, while still maintaining elements of their own culture. |
| Assimilation | The abandonment of one's culture for another. |
| Multiculturalism | a condition in which ethnic groups exist separately and share equally in economic and political life |
| Nativism | A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones |
| Syncretism | A blending of two or more traditions |
| Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom. |
| sense of place | The feeling that an area has a distinct and meaningful character |
| Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. |