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A particular form or stage of civilization, as that of a certain nation or period.
Culture
Ethnicity
Toponym
Gender
What is a characteristic of human action that's acquired by people socially and transmitted via various modes of communication?
Culture trait
Toponym
What is the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings?
Creolization
Architecture
What is the idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another?
Cultural relativism
Syncretism
What is the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture?
Linguistic
Ethnocentrism
What is a landscape that is altered/changed by human activity?
Cultural landscape
Assimilation
What is something that is relating to language or linguistics?
Ethnicity
Linguistic
What is the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape?
Sequent occupancy
Centrifugal Force
What is architecture characterised by the use of local materials and knowledge, usually without the supervision of professional architects?
Postmodern Architecture
Traditional architecture
What is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
Postmodern Architecture
Traditional Architecture
Which is the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition?
Ethnicity
Gender
What is used to define being either of the two sexes (male and female)?
Gender
Ethnicity
What is an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background?
Sense of place
Ethnic neighborhood
What are places that having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing in those territories, or parts of them?
Ethnic neighborhood
Indigenous community
What is a sense of authentic human attachment and belonging?
Sense of place
Placemaking
What is is a multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces?
Placemaking
Sense of place
What is a force that acts on a body moving in a circular path and is directed toward the center around which the body is moving?
Centripetal force
Centrifugal force
What is an apparent force that acts outward on a body moving around a center, arising from the body's inertia?
Centripetal force
Centrifugal force
What type of diffusion diffuses from one person to another?
Relocation diffusion
Expansion diffusion
What type of diffusion diffuses from a country growing in size?
Relocation diffusion
Expansion diffusion
What type of diffusion diffuses from one person to multiple people?
Contagious diffusion
Hierarchal diffusion
Which type of diffusion diffuses from a person of higher class to a person of lower social class?
Contagious diffusion
Hierarchal diffusion
Which of the following is when a trend spreads to a new location or cultural context and changes in its new location or context?
Stimulus diffusion
Creolization
What happens when participants select cultural elements that may become part of or inherited culture?
Creolization
Stimulus Diffusion
A universal language that can be commonly used internationally.
Lingua Franca
Multiculturalism
What is the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically?
Colonialism
Imperialism
What is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force?
Colonialism
Imperialism
Which is the action of buying and selling goods and services?
Trade
Linguistic
What is a map scale ratio in which the ratio of units on the map to units on the earth is quite small?
Large-scale process
Small-scale process
What is a relatively small ratio between map units and ground units?
Large-scale process
Small-scale process
What is the movement of people to, and the clustering of people in, towns and cities?
Globalization
Urbanization
What is the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact?
Globalization
Urbanization
What is the idea that distance between places is, in effect, shrinking due to certain transportation and communities technologies?
Time-space convergence
Cultural convergence
What is the contact and interaction of one culture with another?
Cultural divergence
Cultural convergence
What is the restriction of a culture from outside cultural influences?
Cultural divergence
Cultural convergence
What is a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history?
Language family
Language dialect
What is a way of pronouncing words that indicates the place of origin or social background of the speaker?
Language family
Language dialect
What is any place where certain related changes in land-use appeared due to human domestication?
Cultural Hearth
Ethnicity
Which language family includes the languages from Europe, Iran, and India?
Indo-European language family
Afro-Asiatic language family
What is an area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultural values?
Toponym
Gender
What type of religion doesn’t stay within a certain region?
Universalizing religion
Ethnic religion
A monotheistic, universalizing religion:
Judaism
Christianity
A monotheistic, universalizing religion:
Islam
Sikhism
A polytheistic, universalizing religion
Hinduism
Buddhism
A non-major religion:
Sikhism
Islam
What is a type of religion that typically stays in one region?
Universalizing religion
Ethnic religion
An ethnic, polytheistic religion:
Hinduism
Buddhism
An ethnic, monotheistic religion:
Christianity
Judaism
What is the adoption of certain cultural and social characteristics of one society by another society?
Acculturation
Assimilation
What is the process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture?
Acculturation
Assimilation
What is a form of a tribal religion that involved community acceptance of a shaman, a religious leader, healer, and worker of magic who, through special powers, can intercede with and interpret the spirit world?
Syncretism
Multiculturalism
What is the policy of maintaining a diversity of ethnic cultures within a community?
Syncretism
Multiculturalism
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