Culture Vocabulary

Assimilation to different cultures especially the dominant one

• acculturation

• culture

• culture hearth

• relocation diffusion

The process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society

• acculturation

• asssimilation

• contagious Diffusion

• cuture

The rapid widespread diffusions of a characteristic throughout the population.

• assimulation

• Hierarchical diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• relocation diffusion

the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.

• cuture

• cultural hearth

• acculturation

• cultural divergence

a place of origin for a widespread cultural trend.

• cultural hearth

• contagious diffusion

• assimulation

• culture

when an idea spreads by passing first among the most connected individuals, then spreading to other individuals.

• hierarchical diffusion

• relocation diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• assimulation

the ancestral religions of peoples who are native to particular landscapes.

• indigenous

  religions

• culture hearth

• popular culture

• cultural divergence

The idea may or may not be present at source after the act of relocation after completely diffused to a new geographic location. Also, When people move, or relocate, they spread ideas along with them.

• relocation

  diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• acculturation

fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.

• ethnicity

• ethnocentrism

• multiculturalism

• cultural divergence

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

• ethnocentrism

• ethnicity

• cultural convergence

• folk