Culture Vocab

The shared ideas, beliefs, preferences, and practices of a group of people.

• Culture

• Globalization

• Multinational corporations

• Agglomeration

A process of increasing connections and relationships between people across the globe in economy, politics, and culture.

• Culture

• Globalization

• Multinational corporations

• Americanization

A business that operates in more than one country

• Culture

• Globalization

• Multinational corporation

• Cultural diffusion

The spread of certain beliefs practices and traditions from their hearth to other places

• Culture

• Cultural diffusion

• Americanization

• Placelessness

The increasing level of similarity in the cultural landscape of different places.

• Americanization

• Cultural diffusion

• Placelessness

• Globalization

The spread of American brands, values, and attitudes about the world.

• Americanization

• Placelessness

• Globalization

• Multinational corporation

Cultural homogenization

• When the different cultures of the world become more and more similar

• When the different cultures of the world become more different and/or conflict arises between them more often

Cultural Polarization

• When the different cultures of the world become more and more similar

• When the different cultures of the world become more different and/or conflict arises between them more often

The renewed interest in protecting and celebrating the unique character and culture of a town or city

• Globalization

• Americanized

• Neolocalism

• Homonization

The way in which culture on the local level and culture on the global level influence one another.

• Neolocalism

• Americanization

• Multinational corporation

• Glocalization