unit 3 vocab ap human
Universalizing Religion
Reach as many people as the group can ,tend to be more contagious and hierarchical diffusion (pop culture)
intervening obstacle
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration.
popular culture
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Folk Culture
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
Isoglass
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate. like a boundary between 2 different languages, or a boundary between two different dialect of the same language.
cultural realm
A cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail. North America, the united states and Canada form a cultural realm, but Mexico belongs to a different cultural realm.
Language Branch
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago.
language family
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.
language group
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.
pidgin language
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.
reverse hierarchical diffusion
From less populated areas and smaller towns up to larger cities and people of power.
formal region
A region by geographic features, examples: climate, land (uniformity)
cultural region
A region within which a common cultural characteristic prevails over another.
Dialect
A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
language
A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.
time-distance decay
The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source.
Assimilation
The dying of an original culture and its replaced by new, they lose their own culture to a new.
cultural hearth
The place where something start, the origin of an idea, innovation or culture. examples: the start of buddism was in india
Contagious Diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. ex: spread of flu or viral video
Expansion Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.Expansion Diffusion
relocation diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.
Stimulus Diffusion
The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
culture
The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
centripetal force
Thinks like common language, strong sense of nationalism, pride in a national/ olympic team, or ethnic/ Religious homogeneity that bring people or groups together.
politcal barriers
When someone like the government prevent people from going to places, ex: north korean government prevent people from leaving.
Placelessness
When something is not unique anymore.
multinational corporation
a large company that has operations in more than one country
Denomination
a more localized subgroup of a religion, often with religious autonomy
Globalization
action or processes that involve the entire world and results in making something worldwide Ex: Mcdonalds, KFC, subway, nestle, Nikes, apple, and samung being world wide.
Cultural barrier
can be caused by language, Religious, age, and ethnicity
acculaturation
cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture.
Perceptual Region (Vernacular)
is a region defined by a person's view
physical barriers
natural things that prevent people from moving, Ex: mountains or other natural landscapes prevent people from going to places.
cultural homogeneity
occurs when cultures become the same, or uniform, and local diversity is decreased due to popular culture
time-space convergence
refers to the greatly accelerated movement of goods, information, and ideas during the 20th century, made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communications
syncretism
the combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature. the two cultural groups com together to form a new culture.
sequent occupancy
the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
Cultural Homogenization
the process of reduction in cultural diversity through the diffusion of popular culture ex: people don't want others to follow America, want them to follow their way.
cultural diffusion
the process of spreading and adoption of a cultural element from its place of origin across a wider area.
Hierarchical Diffusion
the spread of something by someone of higher power
toponymy
the study of the origins and meaning of place-names.
polythesitic
worshipping many deity
Monotheistic
worshipping one deity
lingua franca
A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
creole
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
What culture speaks info-European language family
Bengali Dutch Hindi
Economic Barriers
Economic things that prevent people from moving. ex: someone cannot go anywhere because of no money.
Functional Region
Is a region defined by things that link a region, examples: highways, bus, railroad, plane stations.
Ethnocentrism
Is when you think your culture is way better than some else and you want to force it on people.
homogeneity/Homogeneiting
Means the same, similar
ethnic cleansing
Means when people plan to kills people, ex: nazi killing Jews
ethnic religion
Stay close to home, within a specific group and don't seek convert, tend to be more relocation diffusion (folk culture)
Colonialism
To take and conquer an area by force for certain reasons
