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| 9960742785 | Acculturation | Adoption of cultural traits by one group under the influence of another | 0 | |
| 9960767299 | Architectural Structure | The style of a particular culture or society building's, which varies dramatically over space and time | 1 | |
| 9960786218 | Artifacts, Mentifacts, and sociofacts | -material objects representing a culture -ideals that represent a culture -relationships and patterns with cultures | 2 | |
| 9960811400 | Buddhism | Sixth century BC origination. Many traditions from Hinduism. East Asia mostly. | 3 | |
| 9960825406 | Built Environment | Refers to spaces that have been modified by human activity. | 4 | |
| 9960837448 | Charter Group | The first ethnic group to establish cultural norms in an area | 5 | |
| 9960848706 | Christian Denominations in the US | Upper midwest is mostly lutheran midland states are predominantly methodist spanish catholicism in the south mormonism is dominant in Utah and surrounding parts The west is very mixed religion | 6 | |
| 9960874211 | Christianity | Most widespread religion. Monotheistic religion with origins in Judaism. (Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, and Roman Catholic) | 7 | |
| 9960896168 | Confucianism | Relationships between all living things and therefore stresses harmony or balance through the following of particular standard or processes. | 8 | |
| 9960915711 | Countering Language Extinction | Native languages are trying to be revived from home countries. ex: Ireland and Wales | 9 | |
| 9960932303 | Culture Assimilation | When integration of a new arrivals into the economic and cultural mainstream of a host city is complete (Behavioral and Structural) | 10 | |
| 9960956825 | Cultural Imperialism | Dominance of one culture over another | 11 | |
| 9960962979 | Culture Traits | Specific Customs that are part of everyday life. ex: language, religion, ethnicity, and social institutions. | 12 | |
| 9960986255 | Culture | Al he ideas, practices, and material objects associated with a particular group of people. | 13 | |
| 9960994433 | Denominations | Subgroups of a larger beliefs system that have slightly different rituals or interpretations from other subgroups | 14 | |
| 9961007109 | Dialects | Geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary somewhat from the parent forms. | 15 | |
| 9961023166 | Diaspora | Experiences of people who came from a common ethnic background but live in different regions or ethnic neighborhoods | 16 | |
| 9961032827 | Diffusion | Process by which an idea or innovation is transmitted from one individual or group across space. | 17 | |
| 9961045924 | Environmental Determinism | Culture traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions | 18 | |
| 9961055711 | Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide | the effort to rid a country or region of everyone of a particular ethnicity through forced migration or genocide which is permitted to kill off a whole ethnic group. | 19 | |
| 9961067162 | Ethnic Enclaves | A relatively small area occupied by a distinct culture or ethnicity, which largely results from chain migration. ex: Chinatown | 20 | |
| 9961092121 | Ethnic Islands | Small, rural areas settled by a single ethnic group as opposed to ethnic neighborhoods or enclaves, which are urban. | 21 | |
| 9961105484 | Ethnic Neighborhoods | Concentration of people from the same ethnicity in certain pockets of the city. Ghettos are when these people are forced to live in certain parts of cities. | 22 | |
| 9961121675 | Ethnic Provinces | When entire regions become associated with ethnic or racial aggregations. | 23 | |
| 9961128331 | Ethnicity | Refers to a group of people who share a common identity. | 24 | |
| 9961138584 | Ethnocentrism | Tendency to evaluate other cultures against the standards of ones own, implying superiority to one's ethnic group. | 25 | |
| 9963941132 | Folk Culture | Cultural practices that form the sights, smells, sounds, and rituals of everyday existence in traditional societies in which they developed | 26 | |
| 9963952567 | Fundamentalism vs Extremism | -strict and literal adherence to a set of beliefs/principles -violent fundamentalism | 27 | |
| 9963965854 | Gender and Sex | socially created distinction between masculinity and felinity, while connotes biological differences between males and females | 28 | |
| 9963975153 | Global vs Ethnic Religions | global- numerous members widespread(Christianity) Ethnic- religions appeal to small groups of people with common heritage(Hinduism) | 29 | |
| 9963991604 | Hinduism | An ethnic religion tied to Indian culture. Oldest major religion. Caste system is an important aspect | 30 | |
| 9964011509 | Indo-European Language Family | Language trees start with major language branches and then extend down from there. English comes from a germanic branch of indo European. Spanish comes from a latin branch of indo-european | 31 | |
| 9964038125 | Interfaith Boundaries and Intrafaith Boundaries | inter- refers to boundaries between the worlds major faiths intra- refers to boundaries within single major faith | 32 | |
| 9964050018 | Islam | Monotheistic religion stemming from Judaism. Allah and Muhammad was Allah's prophet. centered around southwest Asia and North Africa | 33 | |
| 9964051825 | Islamism | Moral conservationism, literalism, and an attempt to enforce Islamic values in all aspects of life | 34 | |
| 9964082029 | Judaism | First monotheistic religion. based on a sense of ethnic identity. Most jews live in Israel and the US | 35 | |
| 9964121232 | Kinship | Typically describes a relationship based on blood or marriage | 36 | |
| 9964127661 | Landscape as a text | The idea that landscapes, like books, can be written and read | 37 | |
| 9964139085 | Language | One the oldest, most geographically diverse, and most complex cultural traits on Earth. Estimated about 5000 remaining languages, with Africa and Asia being most linguistically diverse. | 38 | |
| 9964175414 | Language Dominance | Development of alphabets and resulting literacy traditions contributed to dominance of particular language and cultures across the globe | 39 | |
| 9964186111 | Language Extinction | Occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people | 40 | |
| 9964193438 | language families | collection of many languages, all of which came from the same original tongue but have different characteristics | 41 | |
| 9964198292 | Language groups | A set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar charachteristics | 42 | |
| 9964207993 | Lingua France | Extremely simple language that combines aspects of two or more complex languages, usually for purpose of trade. (English) | 43 | |
| 9964221178 | Monotheistic vs polytheistic | Mono- Believes in only one god Poly- Believes in multiple gods or more than one | 44 | |
| 9964228620 | Official Language | Language in which all government business occurs. Countries can have more than one official language. | 45 | |
| 9964315440 | Pidgins and Creoles | When tow groups of people with different languages meet, a new language may result with characteristics from both languages Creoles are languages that were pigeons but were used frequently enough to become a creole | 46 | |
| 9964334568 | placelessness | Loss of distinct local features in favor of standardized landscapes | 47 | |
| 9964351954 | pop culture | conveys a notion of culture productions fueled by mass media and consumerism | 48 | |
| 9964363321 | Possibilism | people control their own destinies and deal with various environmental factors in ways that are dynamic | 49 | |
| 9964373160 | Religion | has a value system, includes some notion of the sacred, and includes ides about the place of humans beings in the universe. | 50 | |
| 9964385716 | Sacred Spaces | Areas or places or religion or spiritual significance | 51 | |
| 9964390082 | Segregation | Measure of the extent in which members of a particular minority ethnic group are not informally distributed among the total population | 52 | |
| 9964405926 | Sense of Place | Term used to connote attachment to and comfort in a particular place. | 53 | |
| 9964422303 | Shamanism and Animism | Local religion types, associated with particular places -fills certain jobs and conduits to the supernatural world -the world as being infused with spiritual and supernatural powers | 54 | |
| 9964448320 | Social distance | Measure of the perceived differences between an immigrant ethnic group and the charter or host society | 55 | |
| 9964454388 | Spread of Islam | Saudi Arabia to surrounding areas. Then diffused by relocation to Indonesia and Malaysia. Still continues to grow through relocation diffusion. | 56 | |
| 9964474541 | Syncretism | Th development of a new cultural trait as a result of the fusion of two distinct but interacting cultures. | 57 | |
| 9964483200 | Territoriality | Describes the attachment of individuals or social groups to a specific location to territory | 58 | |
| 9964491708 | Toponymy | The names different cultures give to various features of the Earth, including settlements, terrain features, streams, and other land features. | 59 | |
| 9964510381 | topophilia | "love of place" | 60 | |
| 9964525073 | Universalizing vs Local religions | Universal religions claim global applicability and actively set new converts local religions are specific to certain areas | 61 | |
| 9964536597 | Vernacular Regions | A perceptual religion defined by perceived unique physical and cultural characteristics in that area | 62 | |
| 9964561198 | Worlds Major Religions | Hindu Islam Christianity Buddhism Traditional and Shamanist | 63 |
