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aphg - Unit 3 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| acculturation | immigrant group keeps their culture and blends into new culture |
| adherent | believers in faith |
| animism | belief that non-living objects possess spirits |
| assimilation | ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from receiving group |
| artifacts | physical creations created by culture to reflect values and beliefs |
| built environment | humans creating physical things |
| centrifugal force | attitude that divided people and creates conflict |
| centripetal force | attitude that unifies people and enhances support |
| colonialism (economic) | type of imperialism where people move into and settle on another country's land |
| contagious diffusion | expansion diffusion when all individuals and areas outward from the source region are affected |
| creole language | 2 languages combined to make 1 |
| culture | groups learned behaviors and actions |
| cultural complex | series of interrelated traits like beliefs or artifacts |
| cultural convergence | cultures becoming like each other |
| cultural divergence | culture may change over time |
| cultural hearths | areas where civilization first began that radiated customs and innovations |
| cultural landscape | built environment, modifications of landscape by human activities |
| cultural realms | larger areas that indicate several cultural regions |
| cultural traits | attributes of a culture |
| dialect | regional variety of languages distinguished by vocab, spelling, and pronunciation |
| diaspora | one group of people are dispersed to various location |
| ethnicity | group of people share physical and mental traits |
| ethnocentrism | judging another's culture by standards of one own's culture |
| expansion diffusion | spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another; additive process |
| globalization | increased integration of the world economy since the 1970's |
| hierarchical diffusion | expansion diffusion in which ideas and artifacts first spread between larger and better people, then to smaller worse people |
| isogloss | boundary that separates regions in which different language usage predominate, people saying pop vs soda |