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10th Grade
10/26/2010

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Folk culture
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traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas and may include a custom such as wearing a sarong in Malaysia or a sari in India
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Popular culture
Definition
found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in personal characteristics.
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habit
Definition
a repetitive act that a particular individual performs, such as wearing jeans to class every day.
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custom
Definition
a repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group.
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terroir
Definition
The sum of the effects of the local environment on a particular food item.
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taboo
Definition
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a taboo.
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official language
Definition
the one language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps.
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dialect
Definition
regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
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standard language
Definition
a dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication.
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British received pronunciation
Definition
it is commonly used by politicians, broadcasters, and actors.
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isoglass
Definition
word-usage boundaries
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language family
Definition
a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history.
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language branch
Definition
a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago.
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language group
Definition
a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
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Vulgar Latin
Definition
The latin that people in the provinces learned was not the standard literary form but a spoken form.
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creolized language
Definition
a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
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ideograms
Definition
characters that represent ideas or concepts, not specific pronunciations. Example: Chinese.
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extinct languages
Definition
languages that are extinct
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lingua franca
Definition
A language of international communication, such as English.
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isolated language
Definition
A language unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family.
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pidgin language
Definition
A group that learns English or another lingua franca may learn a simplified form
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Ebonics
Definition
a combination of ebony and phonics.
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franglais
Definition
A combination of francais and anglais.
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branch
Definition
A large and fundamental division within a religion.
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denomination
Definition
a division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body
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sect
Definition
a relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.
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monotheism
Definition
belief that there is only one God.
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polytheism
Definition
Belief of many gods.
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animism
Definition
Animists beleive that such inanimate objects as plants and stores, are "animated," or have discrete spirits and conscious life.
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Missionaries
Definition
individuals who help to transmit a universalizing religion through relocation diffusion.
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ghettos
Definition
city neighborhood set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews.
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pilgrimage
Definition
A journey for religious purposes to a place considered sacred.
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cosmogony
Definition
a set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe.
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solstice
Definition
a major holiday in some pagan religions.
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diocese
Definition
the basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church.
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hierarchical religion
Definition
has well-defined geographic structure and organizes territory into local administrative units.
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autonomous religions
Definition
self sufficient.
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fundamentalism
Definition
a literal interpretation and a strict and intense adherence to basic principles of a religion.
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caste
Definition
the class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu was assigned according to religious law.
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triangular slave trade
Definition
an efficient triangular trading pattern
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sharecropper
Definition
works fields rented from a landowner pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.
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racism
Definition
the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
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race
Definition
the identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor.
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ethnicity
Definition
identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth.
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Apartheid
Definition
physical separation of different races into different geographic areas.
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Blockbusting
Definition
real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move into the neighborhood and cause property values to decline.
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Nationality
Definition
identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country.
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self-determination
Definition
the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
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nation-state
Definition
a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
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nationalism
Definition
loyalty and devotion to a nationality.
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nationality
Definition
identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and person allegiance to a particular country.
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centripetal force
Definition
an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.
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multi-ethnic state
Definition
a state that contains more than one ethnicity.
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multinational states
Definition
contain two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
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Ethnic cleansing
Definition
a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
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Balkanized
Definition
used to describe a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other
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Balkanization
Definition
the process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.
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