Unit 3 Review

Retention of some aspects of minority culture with general acceptance of majority culture; minority culture is practices only by a few

• Cultural Relativism

• Assimilation

• Acculturation

• Syncretism

A mutually understood language used among many tribes to communicate

• Cultural Convergence

• a lingua franca

• multiculturism

• homogenization

Absorption of minority culture by the majority culture; the minority culture fades away with time

• Assimilation

• Acculturation

• Syncretism

• evangelism

Occurs when ideas or practice spread throughout a population

• Expansion Diffusion

• Relocation Diffusion

• Absorbing barriers

• Creole

When individuals or a group migrate to another area brining their ideas with them.

• Expansion Diffusion

• Relocation Diffusion

• Hierarchical diffusion

• Stimulus Diffusion

When a specific trait is not adopted in its original form, but the underlying idea is accepted and the culture trait is adapted.

• cultural modification
• cultural integration
• relocation diffusion

• Stimulus diffusion

An approach to understanding other cultures that seeks to understand individuals and cultures from a wider perspective of cultural logic

• cultural relativism

• ethnocentric approach

• Culture traits

• assimilation

the forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans

• Cultural landscape

• Physical landscape

• geographic region

• placelessness

Origin or where a culture started out

• Hearth

• secularq

• sacred places

• subculture

Largest language family

• Indo-European

• Uralic

• Amerindian

• Sino-Tibetan