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explains the process of cultural and psychological change that results following meeting between cultures.
- cultural change: a change in the cultural behavior and thinking of a person or group of people through contact with another culture
when a person keeps their original home culture but also adapts and accepts the new culture. In effect, this person is bi-cultural. While maintaining original customs, history and values they also add custom’s of their new culture environment |
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when a person replaces their original home culture with their new culture. It was this form that many early immigrants experienced when they migrated to the United States.
Losing everything that makes a person from a culture to completely conform to a new more promient culture to the point of not being able to speak native languages of nationality. |
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| the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments. Human adaptation refers to both biological and cultural processes that enable a population to survive and reproduce within a given or changing environment.[ |
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means the process of one culture gaining ideas, technologies and products of another and so this means that this culture will seem to be integrating into the other.
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represent[ing] the combined work of nature and of man
human imprints includes: how people have changed and shaped the environment to the bulidings, signs, fences and statues people erect. reflect the values, norms, and aesthetics of a culture.
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- regional variety of language: a regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation
- language spoken by class or profession: a form of a language spoken by members of a social class or profession
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| genetic skin color, facial features, appearance that can not be changed. |
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the ideas, beliefs, knowledge, and means of their communication that characterize a culture.
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| the sum of the expected and accepted patterns of interpersonal relations that find their outlet in economic, political, military, religious, kinship: and other associations. These sociofacts define the social organization of a culture. They regulate how the individual functions relative to the group, whether it be family, church, or state. There are no "givens" as far as the patterns of interaction in any of these associations are concerned, except that most cultures possess a variety of formal and informal ways of structuring behavior. Differing patterns of behavior are learned and transmitted from one generation to the next. |
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a religion that attempts to operate on a global scale and to appeal to all people wherever they reside, compared to an ethnic religion which primarily attracts one group of people living in one place. Most are divided into branches, denominations, and sects. By far the most practiced is Christianity. Islam and Buddhism
About 62% of the world's population identify, with about 24% adhering to an ethnic religion and 14% to no religion in particular. |
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The forcing factors may consist of separation elements between two locations, such as the observed time of from one place to another, or behaviour coherence
circulation from a person from one area traveling to another and spreading the other places ideas.
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| is a classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by heritable phenotypic characteristics, geographic ancestry, physical appearance, and ethnicity. In the early twentieth century the term was often used, in its taxonomic sense, to denote genetically diverse human populations whose members possessed similar phenotypes.[1] |
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may include officially sanctioned and organized civil religions with an organized clergy, but they are characterized in that adherents generally are defined by their ethnicity, and conversion essentially equates to cultural assimilation to the people in question
Judaism is considered an by some authors (defining of the Jewish people, but not by others. Hinduism as a whole is mostly classed as one of the world religions, but some currents of Hindu nationalism take it as definitive of an Indian or Hindu ethnicity or nation. Within Hinduism, there are regional or tribal currents with ethnic traits, sometimes termed Folk Hinduism. |
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| is a term that refers to the relationship between artifacts and social relations |
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is officially sanctioned and organized civil religions with an organized clergy
refers to the fact that all such religions began as the practice of small groups, extended families, clans or tribes, and were originally confined to the ancestral lands of these groups. The religion becomes an identifying feature of members of the group, so that even when exogamy is practised, they remain bound together by symbols and practices as well as by blood relationships.
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- shared beliefs and values of group: the beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular nation or people
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| The entire region throughout which a culture prevails |
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are the characteristics of a culture. An example would be like...Muslims...they pray 5 times a day because it's a cultural tradition.
Culture Traits are Characteristics of a Culture
Example: Christians pray for religion. Praying is a Characteristic of a religion.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_definition_for_'culture_traits'#ixzz1wCZjzC8A |
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the Great Wall lines of longitude and latitude arbitrary lines. People move around and don’t really know where they are. State lines no perfect boundaries lots of disputes. Super imposed boundaries that do not take culture into account like in Africa make for conflict.
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(breaking up)
tearing a country apart through Charistmatic leaders like Hitler that brainwashed his people to slaughter and destroy Germany
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bringing together
Gahndi in India brought peace to his people
The Country becomes united and has common enemies on the outside. Strong sense of togetherness on the inside |
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| is circular with the capitol in the center. |
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protruded or panhandle country such as Myanmar (Burma) or Thailand have an extended arm of territory. Like an elongated state, the panhandle complicates things
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| A state with many broken up islands isolated from eachother. |
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Extending beyond or transcending established borders or spheres of influence held by separate nations
The United States has a great sphere of influence economically in other countries. North Korea has a military sphere of influence but its not global like the US.
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