Geo Unit 3 Vocabulary

The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture

• assimilation

• acculuration

• cultural divergence

• cultural convergence

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

• popular culture

• ethnic neighborhood

• folk culture

• cultural landscape

tendency for cultures to become more and more like each other as their interactions increase

• cultural convergence

• cultural divergence

• popular culture

• folk culture

way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept and that are passed along from one generation to the next

• popular culture

• folk culture

• culture

• cultural landscape

landscapes that have been affected, influenced, or shaped by human involvement

• culture

• cultural convergence

• cultural landscape

• ethnic neighborhood

tendency for cultures to become dissimilar over time

• cultural divergence

• cultural convergence

• culture

• cultural landscape

the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal god or gods

• culture

• religion

• ethnicity

• dialect

process through which a person or group from one culture comes to adopt the practices and values of another culture, while still retaining their own distinct culture

• acculturation

• assimilation

• cultural convergence

• cultural divergence

cultural products such as music, art, literature, fashion, etc. that are consumed by the majority of a society's population

• popular culture

• folk culture

• universalizing religion

• ethnic religion

a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like

• ethnicity

• folk culture

• dialect

• language family