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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Question: Acculturation Answer: The process of adjustment to the dominant . but still maintain major elements of their own culture Question: Assimilation Answer: The of giving up ALL or MOST of the cultural traditions and adopting the social customs of the dominant culture of a place. Question: environment Answer: The man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to cities Question: Centrifugal Answer: A cultural value that tends to pull apart Question: Centripetal Answer: A cultural value that tends to people Question: artifacts Answer: Anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and . (Think about the cultural artifact assignment.) Question: Cultural Answer: Cultural convergence is the theory that two cultures will be more and more like each other as their interactions increase. Basically, the more that cultures interact, the more that their values, behaviors, arts, and customs will to reflect each other. This is because of improved transportation and communication Question: Cultural Answer: is the tendency for cultures to become over time. Question: Cultural Answer: The area in which a unique or specific trait develops/originates . Question: landscape Answer: The imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape (built environment) Question: relativism Answer: The ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make judgements using the standards of one's own culture. The goal of this is promote understanding of cultural practices that are not part of one's own culture. Question: Answer: The enduring behaviors, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next Question: Answer: The repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act. Question: enclaveAnswer: A place with a high concentration of an group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area (China Town, San Francisco) Question: Ethnocentrism Answer: A belief in the of one's own ethnic group Question: Folk Answer: Culture traditionally practiced by a small, HOMOGENEOUS, group living in relative isolation from other groups. Question: Answer: Actions or processes that the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. Question: Answer: A repetitive act performed by an Question: people Answer: Native to a region (Native Americans) Question: Mentifacts Answer: Language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, that make up the non-material aspects of a culture. Question: Answer: The coexistence of several cultures in one society, with the ideal of all cultures being and worth of study. (U.S.A) Question: Nativism Answer: Favoring the of native-born people over foreign-born people Question: Answer: Loss of uniqueness in a place (think uniform ) Question: Popular Answer: found in a large, HETEROGENEOUS society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. Question: Postmodern Answer: Combines traditional and contemporary Question: architecture Answer: Buildings use building materials available and reflect social/environmental of the people (EX log cabins) Question: Sense of Answer: The special perception we have a certain based on our feelings, emotions, and associations with that place. Question: occupancy Answer: The notion that successive leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape. Question: Sociofacts Answer: The education and political institutions, religious organizations, family , etc. That make up the non-material aspects of a culture Question: Answer: The birth of a new trait from blending two or more cultural traits Question: Taboo Answer: A restriction on behavior imposed by social . Question: Answer: When an exchange of traits or influence between two culture groups occurs Question: landscape Answer: The spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to (McDonald's world wide) Question: Toponyms Answer: names Question: Cultural Answer: The social activities and interactions-ranging from rituals to food preferences to clothing that collectively distinguish group identity. Question: Cultural Answer: The predominant beliefs in a culture about right and wrong, what is most important in life, and how life should be lived. May also include about where and how life originated and what happens after death. Question: Diffusion Answer: The process of of a feature or trend from one place to another over time Question: Answer: The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community's quality of life (Think ) |
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