Intro to Culture

When an ethnic or immigrant group adopts cultural traits of another group while maintaining major elements of their own culture.

• Acculturation

• Assimilation

• Globalization

• Sense of place

• Placelessness

This results when an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group; this often happens as ethnic groups become more affluent and leave their ethnic areas.

• Acculturation

• Assimilation

• Globalization

• Sense of place

• Placelessness

The process of intensified interaction among peoples, governments, and companies of different countries around the globe.

• Acculturation

• Assimilation

• Globalization

• Sense of place

• Placelessness

Combinations of physical features, agricultural and industrial practices, religious and linguistic characteristics, evidence of sequent occupancy, and other expressions of culture including traditional and postmodern architecture and land-use patterns. ("built environment")

• Cultural landscape

• Cultural trait

• Culture

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnocentrism

The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture (food preferences, architecture, land use, etc.)

• Cultural landscape

• Cultural trait

• Culture

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnocentrism

The shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by a society.

• Cultural landscape

• Cultural trait

• Culture

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnocentrism

The idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another.

• Cultural landscape

• Cultural trait

• Culture

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnocentrism

The act of judging another culture based on preconceptions that are found in the values and standards of one's own culture.

• Cultural landscape

• Cultural trait

• Culture

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnocentrism

Traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

• Folk culture (indigenous/local culture)

• Popular culture

• Sequent occupancy

• Stimulus diffusion

• Reverse hierarchical diffusion

Found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.

• Folk culture (indigenous/local culture)

• Popular culture

• Sequent occupancy

• Stimulus diffusion

• Reverse hierarchical diffusion