11499205752 | Language Tree | a representation of the relationships of languages to each other | 0 | |
11936265719 | Culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people. | 1 | |
11936276128 | cultural trait | The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture. | 2 | |
11936286476 | Sacred Sites | A location that is held by a certain religion to be holy and worthy of reverence, such as a temple. | 3 | |
11936293728 | Ethnic Neighborhood | an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background | 4 | |
11936298680 | Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. | 5 | |
11936304423 | Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. | 6 | |
11936315844 | Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places | 7 | |
11936321157 | Stimulus Diffusion | The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. | 8 | |
11936324380 | relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | 9 | |
11936328801 | language families | large groups of languages having similar roots | 10 | |
11936356819 | Language Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 11 | |
11936361240 | languages | human speech, spoken or written | 12 | |
11936367363 | gender roles | sets of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one's status as male or female | 13 | |
11936376506 | Cultural Hearth | Locations on Earth's surface where specific cultures first arose. | 14 | |
11936383946 | lingua franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 15 | |
11936392100 | Colonialism | Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. | 16 | |
11936392101 | Imperialism | A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. | 17 | |
11936401079 | Acculturation | (n.) the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend | 18 | |
11936404936 | Assimilation | interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas | 19 | |
11936409940 | Multiculturalism | A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the United States and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions | 20 | |
11936415340 | ethnic religion | A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated. | 21 | |
11936427445 | Universalizing Religion | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location. | 22 | |
11936431985 | cultural landscape | Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. | 23 | |
11936436733 | sense of place | State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place or by labeling a place with a certain character. | 24 | |
11936442324 | Placelessness | the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next | 25 | |
11936449027 | Reionalism | n international relations, regionalism is the expression of a common sense of identity and purpose combined with the creation and implementation of institutions that express a particular identity and shape collective action within a geographical region. | 26 |
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