Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes

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

• culture

• ethnic enclaves

• urbanization

• placemaking

• language dialect

building blocks of a culture

• linguistics
• cultural relativism
• globalization
• cultural traits
• acculturation

area in which a unique culture or specific trait develops in a culture

• cultural relativism
• cultural hearth
• cultural divergence
• centripetal force
• indigenous community

shared cultural traits bring homogeneity to the culture and also gives inhabitants a tie to the area where they live and gives them a sense of ownership

• sense of place
• cultural hearth
• imperialism
• contagious diffusion
• centrifugal force

the boundaries of a region reflect the human imprint on the environment

• cultural hearth

• acculturation

• cultural landscape

• culture

• contagious diffusion

clusters of people of the same culture, but surrounded by people of a culture that is dominant in the region

• ethnic enclaves

• centripetal force

• stimulus diffusion

• globalization

• toponym

an ethnic or immigrant group moving to a new area adopts the values and practices of the larger group that has received them, while still maintaining major elements of their own culture

• stimulus diffusion
• acculturation
• expansion diffusion
• architecture
• pidgin language

an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group

• placelessness
• centrifugal force
• assimilation
• language family
• cultural convergence

coexistence of several cultures in one society

• pidgin language
• creole language
• language dialect
• ethnic neighborhood
• multiculturalism

a common language used by people who do not share the same native language for the purpose of trade.

• lingua franca

• postmodern architecture

• ethnic neighborhood

• ethnocentrism

• ethnic enclave