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| 15183176712 | Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. | 0 | |
| 15183182380 | popular culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. | 1 | |
| 15183186042 | Local Culture | A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others. | 2 | |
| 15183189093 | material culture | the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people | 3 | |
| 15183195231 | nonmaterial culture | The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people. | 4 | |
| 15183199663 | Culture Traits Examples | activities and behaviors that are repeatedly practiced in a culture (people). ◦ religion, language, art, education, sports, food, music, fashion, entertainment, tradition, holidays, architecture, transportation, | 5 | |
| 15183207241 | Acculturation | The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another. | 6 | |
| 15183210543 | cultural syncretism | The blending of elements of cultures; also referred to as hybridization or acculturation. | 7 | |
| 15183220606 | cultural appropriation | the process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit | 8 | |
| 15183225540 | Neolocalism | The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world. (Lindsborg KS) | 9 | |
| 15183233457 | Ethnic Neighborhood | an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background | 10 | |
| 15183239664 | Commodification | the process though which something is given monetary value (Dream Catchers) | 11 | |
| 15183250778 | Authenticity of Place | The accuracy of a place to have traditional values and customs particular to that area - Panda Express vs. Real Chinese Food | 12 | |
| 15183263235 | Assimilation | the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another | 13 | |
| 15183271900 | Reterritorialization | with respect to popular culture, when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own (Rap in France) | 14 | |
| 15183285052 | Placelessness (uniform landscape) | the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next (Chain stores and restaurants) | 15 | |
| 15183294468 | folk-housing regions | Fred Kniffen researched house types and their diffusion in North America and found that 3 regions have these houses: (1)New England, (2) Mid-Atlantic, and (3) Lower Chesapeake Bay. The diffusion streams created the regions. EX) (1) Saltbox, two-chimney, Cape Cod, Front Wing, and Gable. (2) I-house, Tidewater. (3) Shotgun | 16 | |
| 15183306107 | built environment | The man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-scale civic surroundings. | 17 | |
| 15183312667 | Gender | the socially constructed roles and characteristics by which a culture defines male and female | 18 | |
| 15183318015 | identity | our sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent's task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles | 19 | |
| 15183322347 | Race | A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics. | 20 | |
| 15183333093 | Racism | Belief that one race is superior to another | 21 | |
| 15183383190 | residential segregation | Defined by Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton as "the degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the urban environment." | 22 | |
| 15183388656 | invasion and succession | Process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupied by older immigrant groups. | 23 | |
| 15183394517 | Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. | 24 | |
| 15183405388 | Gendered | In terms of a place, whether the place is designed for or claimed by men or women | 25 | |
| 15183410948 | Dowry deaths | In the context of arranged marriages in India, disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom (the dowry) have, in some extreme cases, led to the death of the bride | 26 | |
| 15183430973 | ethnic enclave | a small area occupied by a distinctive minority culture | 27 | |
| 15183438143 | Ethnocentrism | Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group. | 28 | |
| 15183447741 | plural society | a society in which different cultural groups keep their own identity, beliefs, and traditions | 29 | |
| 15183451258 | Segregation | separation of the races | 30 | |
| 15183463382 | language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning | 31 | |
| 15183465717 | Dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 32 | |
| 15183475211 | language families | Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin | 33 | |
| 15183478417 | Subfamilies (language) | divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent | 34 | |
| 15183487371 | lingua franca | a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce | 35 | |
| 15183499354 | pidgin language | When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary | 36 | |
| 15183509919 | Creole language | a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in a place of the mother tongue | 37 | |
| 15183514673 | monolingual | speaking or writing only one language | 38 | |
| 15183517580 | multilingual | speaking several languages | 39 | |
| 15183517581 | Toponym | place name | 40 | |
| 15183524288 | Indo-European languages | a family (or phylum) of several hundred related languages and dialects,[1] including most major languages of Europe, Iran, and northern India, and historically also predominant in Anatolia and Central Asia. | 41 | |
| 15183526824 | Religion | the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. | 42 | |
| 15183530434 | Secularism | A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations. | 43 | |
| 15183538492 | Universalizing Religion | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location. | 44 | |
| 15183542278 | ethnic religion | a religion that is particular to one culturally distinct group of people | 45 | |
| 15183550504 | animist religions | religions in which people believe in the presence of the spirits and forces of nature | 46 | |
| 15183553881 | Hinduism | A religion native to India, featuring belief in many gods and reincarnation | 47 | |
| 15183558827 | Buddhism | Belief system that started in India in the 500s BC. Happiness can be achieved through removal of one's desires. Believers seek enlightenment and the overcoming of suffering. | 48 | |
| 15183566475 | Sikhism | the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam | 49 | |
| 15183570417 | Christianity | the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices. | 50 | |
| 15183574213 | Islam | A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and a body of law written in the Quran. Followers are called Muslims. | 51 | |
| 15183582206 | Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews. | 52 | |
| 15183585266 | Taosim | A religion that stressed the importance of harmony in nature and inner peace. Founded by Lao-tzu in China. | 53 | |
| 15183611873 | Zionism | A movement to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine | 54 | |
| 15183614832 | Protestant | Christians who belonged to non-Catholic churches | 55 | |
| 15183618255 | Eastern Orthodox | this Christian religion broke away from the Roman church when it would not accept the authority of the Pope as the head of the church; located in Eastern Europe and Russia | 56 | |
| 15183625186 | Sunni | A branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad | 57 | |
| 15183631453 | Shia | the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad | 58 | |
| 15183635790 | Shamanism | community faith in traditional societies in which people follow their shaman | 59 | |
| 15183647201 | Pilgrimage | A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes. | 60 | |
| 15183650233 | Sacred Sites | place or space people infuse with religious meaning | 61 | |
| 15183654174 | interfaith boundaries | boundaries between the world's major faiths | 62 | |
| 15183657618 | intrafaith boundaries | boundaries within a single major faith | 63 | |
| 15183686692 | Catholic Church | Branch of Christianity established in 1054 and establishes itself in Western Europe. Noted for its separation from the political sphere, celibacy in its clergy, and instance of the bishop of Rome, or pope, as its ultimate authority in Christian belief and practice. | 64 |
