AP Flashcards

5487748184	Abrahamic faiths	Judaism Christanity and Islam are practiced	0
5487748185	Acculturation	The modification of he social patterns, traits, or structures of one group of society by contact with those of another	1
5487748186	Artifact	An object made by human beings: often refers to a primitive tool	2
5487748187	Americanization	Americanizing culture	3
5487748188	Apartheid	Laws (no longer effect) in South America that physically separate different races into different geographic areas	4
5487748189	Assimilation	Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture	5
5487748190	Creole	Formalized pidgin language	6
5487748191	Cultural adaptation	New people adapt to the cultural of the previously existing people	7
5487748192	Cultural convergence	The contact and interaction of one cultural with another	8
5487748193	Cultural hearth	A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward	9
5487748194	cultural perception	The concept that people of different cultures will differently observe and interpret their environment and make different decisions about its nature	10
5487748195	Custom	The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristics of the group of people performing the act	11
5487748196	Dialect	A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation	12
5487748197	Relocation diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another	13
5487748198	Expansion diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process	14
5487748199	Hierarchical diffusion	The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other person or places	15
5487748200	Stimulus diffusion	Underlying principle of a characteristics spreads although characteristics failed	16
5487748201	Contagious diffusion	The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout	17
5487748202	Ethnic cleansing	Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removed a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region	18
5487748203	Ethnic religions	A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principal are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated	19
5487748204	Ethnicity	Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions	20
5487748205	Ethnonationalism	nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry	21
5487748206	Folk culture	Cultural traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in a relative isolation from other groups	22
5487748207	Habit	A repetitive act performed by a particular individual	23
5487748208	Indigenous peoples	A person who occupy a region at the time of its contact with colonial powers or the outside world	24
5487748209	Isogloss	A boundary that separates region in which different language usages predominate	25
5487748210	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	26
5487748211	Language family	A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history	27
5487748212	Lingua Franca	A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native language	28
5487748213	Material culture	The physical manifestations of human activities	29
5487748214	Monotheistic	Belief that only one God	30
5487748215	Official language	The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents	31
5487748216	Pidgin	A form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua Franca, used for communication among speakers of two different languages	32
5487748217	Polytheistic	Th belief in or worship of more than one God	33
5487748218	Popular culture	Cultural found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics	34
5487748219	Secularization	Religion lose social and cultural	35
5487748220	Taboo	A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom	36
5487748221	Universalizing religions	A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location	37
5487748222	Vernacular regions	An area that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity	38