Unit 3 Vocabulary

The widespread behaviors, beliefs, and practices of ordinary people in society at a given point in time.

A shared standard or pattern that guides the behavior of a group of people.

A shared object or cultural practice.

The evaluation of a culture by its own standards.

The tendency of ethnic groups to evaluate other groups according to preconceived ideas originating from their own culture.

The beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies shared by a society and passed down from generation to generation.

The long-established behaviors, beliefs, and practices passed down from generation to generation.

The state of belonging to a group of people who share common cultural characteristics.

How humans make sense of themselves and how they wish to be reviewed by others.

A cultural landscape within a community of people outside their area of origin.

A building style that emerged as a reaction to “modern” designs, and values diversity in design.

An established building style of different cultures, religions, and places.

A place name.

A natural landscape that has been modified by human, reflecting their cultural beliefs and values.

The notion that successive societies leave behind their cultural imprint, a collection of evidence about human character and experiences within a geographic region, which shapes the cultural landscape.

A distinct system of communication that is the carrier of human though and cultural identities.

A system of spiritual beliefs that helps form cultural perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, and values.

A journey to a holy place for spiritual reasons.

A space designed and deliberately incorporated into the landscape to accommodate gender roles.

A space of acceptance for people who are sometimes marginalized by society.

An individual’s innermost concept of self as a male, female, a blend of both, or neither.

The renovations and improvements conform to middle-class preferences.

A variation of a standard language specific to a general language, with differences in pronunciation, degree of rapidity in speech, word choice, and spelling.

A separate church organization that unites several local congregations.

A force that unites a group of people.

A community-driven process in which people collaborate to create a place where they can live, work, play, and learn.

A relatively small group that has separated form an established religious denomination.

A force that divides a group of people.

The subjective feelings and memories people associate with a geographic location.

A person who is loyal to a belief, religion, or organization.

The process by which an idea or cultural trait spreads rapidly among people of all social classes and levels of power.

An area where cultural traits develop and form which cultural traits diffuse.

The spread of a cultural trait outward from where it originated

The spread of an idea or trait from a person or place of power or authority to other people or places.

The process by which a cultural trait spreads from one place to another over time.

The process by which a cultural trait or idea spreads to another culture or region but is modified to adapt to the new culture.

Common language used among speakers of different languages.

The process by which cultures become more similar through interaction.

The process by which cultures become less similar due to conflicting beliefs or other barriers.

The blending of two or more languages that may not include the features of either original language.

The act of adopting elements of another culture.

A culture in which people are expected to conform to collective responsibility within the family and to be obedient to and respectful to elderly family members.

The process by which people within one culture adopt some of the traits of another while still retaining their own distinct culture.

Process of innovation coming from different cultural features into something new.

A situation in which different cultures live together without assimilating.

A category of acculturation in which the interaction of two cultures results in one culture adopting almost all of the customs, traditions, language, and other cultural traits.