APHG Unit 3 - Vocabulary Quiz

spreading of information, ideas, behaviors or other aspects of culture

• hearth

• diffusion

• hearth

• language

a group's learned behaviors, actions, beliefs and objects

• hearth

• agriculture

• culture

• ethnicity

an area where a unique culture or trait originated

• hearth

• language

• ethnicity

• sense of place

behaviors discouraged by a culture

• sense of place

• dialects

• folk cultures

• taboos

traditional, un-changing, isolated, homogenous groups, lacks technology, little or no diffusion

• Characteristics of Pop Culture

• Characteritics of Folk Culture

• Cultural Landscape

• Sense of Place

the visible reflection of a culture

• region

• cultural landscape

• culrural realm

• enclave

clusters of people who share a common culture who live among a more dominant culture

• enclave

• region

• realm

• hearth

global, rapid diffusion, heterogeneous groups, variety of people/regions

• Characteristics of Pop Culture

• Characterisitics of Folk Culture

• Types of Diffusion

• Examples of cultural hearths

when an ethnic group loses their cultural identity

• Acculturation

• Assimilation

• Multiculturalism

• Nativism

when an ethnic group adopts new cultural practices while maintaining their elements of their own culture

• Acculturation

• Assimilation

• Multiculturalism

• Nativism