AP HUM GEO - Unit 4 Vocab

made up of the same kind of people or things

• Heterogeneous

• Homogenous

• Assimilation

consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents

• Heterogeneous

• Acculturation

• Homogenous

any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry

• Ethnicity

• Assimilation

• Race

large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background

• Ethnicity

• Culture

• Race

the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time

• Culture

• Race

• Ethnicity

set of practices, beliefs, and objects that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social system.

• Pop Culture

• Folk Culture

• Assimilation

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

• Pop Culture

• Folk/Ethnic Culture

• Acculturation

evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.

• Assimilation

• Acculturation

• Ethnocentricism

the tendency for culture to become increasingly dissimilar with the passage of time.

• Cultural Divergence

• Cultural Convergence

• Cultural Appropriation

• Cultural Converse

the theory that two cultures will be more and more like each other as their interactions increase

• Cultural Divergence

• Cultural Converse

• Cultural Convergence

• Cultural Submergence