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APHG Unit 3 Social Institution Barrons & Rubenstein

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show The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.  
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Animism   show
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Artifact   show
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show System of belief that seeks to explain ultimate realities for all people-such as the nature of suffering and the path toward self-realization.  
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show System in India that gives every Indian a particular place in the social hierarchy from birth. Individuals may improve the position they inherit in the caste system in their next life through their actions, or karma.  
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show The world's most widespread religion. Christianity is a monothe¬istic, universal religion that uses missionaries to expand its members worldwide. The three major categories of Christianity are Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox.  
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show A pidgin language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it.  
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Cultural complex   show
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show Obliteration of an entire culture by war, disease, accul-turation, or a combination of the three.  
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show The subfield of human geography that looks at how cul-tures vary over space.  
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Cultural hearth   show
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Cultural imperialism   show
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show The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a par¬ticular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture.  
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Culture   show
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show Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group.  
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Denomination   show
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show Geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary some¬what from the parent form.  
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Diaspora   show
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Ecumene   show
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show A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.  
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show The systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethnicity from a country or region either by forced migration or genocide.  
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show An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background.  
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show Religion that is identified with a particular ethnic or tribal group and that does not seek new converts.  
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Ethnicity   show
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show Religion in which an effort is made to spread a partic¬ular belief system.  
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Folk culture   show
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show The strict adherence to a particular doctrine.  
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show A premeditated effort to kill everyone from a particular ethnic group.  
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show A segregated ethnic area within a city.  
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show Religion in which members are numerous and widespread and their doctrines might appeal to different people from any region of the globe.  
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Hinduism   show
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Indo-European family   show
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Islam   show
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Judaism   show
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Language extinction   show
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show A collection of many languages, all of which came from the same original tongue long ago, that have since evolved different characteristics.  
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show A set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics.  
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show An extremely simple language that combines aspects of two or more other, more-complex languages usually used for quick and efficient communication.  
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show The ability to read and write.  
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Local religion   show
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show A racial or ethnic group smaller than and differing from the major¬ity race or ethnicity in a particular area or region.  
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Missionary   show
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Monotheism   show
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Multicultural   show
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show Language in which all government business occurs in a country.  
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show Language that may develop when two groups of people with different languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language.  
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show A journey to a place of religious importance.  
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show The worship of more than one god.  
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Pop culture (or popular culture) (Driven by economy)   show
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Race   show
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Romance languages   show
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Shaman   show
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The single person who takes on the roles of priest, counselor, and physician and acts as a conduit to the supernatural world in a shamanist culture.   show
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show Traditions that borrow from both the past and present.  
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Toponym   show
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show A cohesive collection of customs within a cultural group.  
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Universalizing religion   show
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Custom   show
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Folk culture   show
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show A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.  
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show Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.  
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Taboo   show
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British Received Pronunciation (BRP)   show
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show A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.  
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show A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.  
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Ebonics   show
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Extinct language   show
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Franglais   show
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Isogloss   show
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Isolated language   show
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show A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.  
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Language branch   show
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show A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.  
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show A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.  
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Lingua franca   show
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Literary tradition   show
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Official language   show
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show A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages.  
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show Combination of Spanish and English, spoken by Hispanic-Americans.  
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Standard language   show
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Vulgar Latin   show
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show Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.  
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Autonomous religion   show
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show The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law.  
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Cosmogony   show
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show A division of a branch that ur1ites a number of local  
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Diocese   show
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Ethnic religion   show
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Fundamentalism   show
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Ghetto   show
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Hierarchical religion   show
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show An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion.  
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Pagan   show
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show A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.  
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Polytheism   show
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Sect   show
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show Time when the Sun is farthest from the equator.  
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show A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.  
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show (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.  
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show Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.  
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Balkanized   show
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show A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood.  
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Centripetal force   show
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Ethnic cleansing   show
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Ethnicity   show
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show State that contains more than one ethnicity.  
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Multinational state   show
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show Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality. Nationality Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.  
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show A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.  
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Race   show
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show Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.  
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show A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.  
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show Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.  
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Sharecropper   show
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Triangular slave trade   show
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