Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes

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Across
  1. 5. Type of diffusion when innovations spread through the physical movement of people from one place to another
  2. 6. The restriction of a culture from outside influences
  3. 7. When a minority culture is absorbed into the culture of the majority
  4. 10. Support for the presence of several distinct cultural or ethnic groups in a society
  5. 12. The sum of knowledge, attitudes and habits shared by members of a society
  6. 14. Type of diffusion of an innovation or concept from those with more power and influence to those with less
  7. 16. A neighborhood that retains some cultural distinction from a larger area
  8. 17. The process in which two or more languages converge and form a new language
  9. 18. The place from which an innovation originates
  10. 19. A form of speech that adopts simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca and is used for communication among speakers of two different languages
  11. 20. The blending of traits from two different cultures to form a new trait
Down
  1. 1. When a less dominant culture adopts some traits of a more dominant culture.
  2. 2. A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer’s language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
  3. 3. The feeling that one’s own ethnic group or culture is superior to others
  4. 4. Type of rapid and widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout a population
  5. 6. Something that unifies people and enhances support for the state
  6. 8. The idea that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
  7. 9. The type of culture practiced by relatively small, homogenous populations in particular areas
  8. 11. The type of religion that tries to appeal to all types of people
  9. 13. A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
  10. 15. The religion for which the Koran is the holy text