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APHG Unit 3 Social Institution Barrons & Rubenstein

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Acculturation   show
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show Most prevalent in Africa and the Americas, doctrine in which the world is seen as being infused with spiritual and even supernatural powers.  
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show Any item that represents a material aspect of culture ..  
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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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Caste system   show
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Christianity   show
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Creole   show
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show The group of traits that define a particular culture.  
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Cultural extinction   show
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show The subfield of human geography that looks at how cul-tures vary over space.  
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show Locations on earth's surface where specific cultures first arose.  
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show The dominance of one culture over another.  
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Cultural trait   show
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show A total way of life held in common by a group of people, including learned features such as language, ideology, behavior, technology, and gov¬ernment.  
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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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show People who corne from a common ethnic background but who live in different regions outside of the home of their ethnicity.  
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Ecumene   show
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Environmental determinism   show
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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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Ethnic neighborhood   show
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Ethnic religion   show
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Ethnicity   show
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Evangelical religions   show
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show Refers to a constellation of cultural practices that form the sights, smells, sounds, and rituals of everyday existence in the traditional soci¬eties in which they developed.  
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Fundamentalism   show
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Genocide   show
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Ghetto   show
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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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show A cohesive and unique society, most prevalent in India, that inte¬grates spiritual beliefs with daily practices and official institutions such as the caste system.  
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show Language family including the Germanic and Romance languages that is spoken by about 50% of the world's people.  
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Islam   show
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Judaism   show
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show This occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people. Thousands of languages have become extinct over the eons since language first developed, but the process of language extinction has accelerated greatly during the past 300 years.  
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Language family   show
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show A set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics.  
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Lingua franca   show
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show The ability to read and write.  
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show Religions that are spiritually bound to particular regions.  
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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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show A person of a particular faith that travels in order to recruit new members into the faith represented.  
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show The worship of only one god.  
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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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Pilgrimage   show
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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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show 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.  
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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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show Place names given to certain features on the land such as settle¬ments, terrain features, and streams.  
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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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show The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.  
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show Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups  
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show A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.  
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Popular culture   show
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Taboo   show
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show The dialect of English associated With upper-class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.  
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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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Dialect   show
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show Dialect spoken by some African-Americans. Economic  
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show A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.  
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show A term used by the French for English words that have entered the French language, a combination of franfais and anglai." the French words for "French" and "English," respectively.  
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show A boundary that separates regions in which different  
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show A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.  
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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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show A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.  
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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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Language group   show
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Lingua franca   show
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show A language that is written as well as spoken.  
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show The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.  
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Pidgin language   show
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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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show A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally.  
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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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show A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe.  
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show A division of a branch that ur1ites a number of local  
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show The basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church.  
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Ethnic religion   show
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Fundamentalism   show
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show During the middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure.  
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Hierarchical religion   show
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Missionary   show
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show follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times. Pandemic Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.  
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Pilgrimage   show
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Polytheism   show
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show A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.  
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show Time when the Sun is farthest from the equator.  
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Universalizing religion   show
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Apartheid Laws   show
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show Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.  
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show A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other.  
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Blockbusting   show
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Centripetal force   show
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show Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.  
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show Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.  
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show State that contains more than one ethnicity.  
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show State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.  
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Nationalism   show
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Nation-state   show
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show Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.  
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Racism   show
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show A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.  
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Self-determination   show
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show A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.  
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show A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.  
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