Culture & Societies Vocabulary Review

What is culture?

• the ideas of important people

• the ideas, customs, and social behaviors of a particular people or society

• what people do

• recent trends, famous people, and how people spend their time

Instagram's popularity around the world is an example of________.

• internalization

• relocation diffusion

• pull factors

• contagious diffusion

Anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of it's creator and users is a

(a)  

After an American moves to China, they start eating with chopsticks. Using chopsticks is an example of______?

• internalization

• amalgamation

• migration

• cultural artifact

War, famine, or economic decline are all example of (a)   ?

syncretism

• The co-existence of multiple culture in one society.

• Two culture blend together creating an entirely new culture

• When a minority culture is absorbed into the dominant culture.

• When a culture takes on traits of another culture but still retains its own culture

Which is an example of migration?

• trip to the beach

• visiting grandma's

• returning to hometowns for Chinese spring festival

• grocery shopping

Stimulus diffusion is the

• spread of culture away from the cultural hearth

• spread of culture from the cultural hearth but is changed by cultural adopters

• the spread of culture out to cultural adopters

• spread of culture from the cultural hearth and remains the same to cultural adopters

relocation or process of people leaving one country to move to another country

(a)  

The process by which individuals or groups of differing culture are absorbed into the dominant culture.

• amalgamation

• internalization

• acculturation

• assimilation