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Diffusion
Acculturation
Revolution
Invention
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Classical or unilineal evolutionism
Diffusionism
Kulturkreise
Cultural materialism
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Classical or unilineal evolutionism
Diffusionism
Kulturkreise
Cultural materialism
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A discovery
Inventions
Diffusion
Revolution
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When aspects of a culture all change together
A synonym for a West Indian religious tradition
The blending of new religious practices with traditional ones
Following newly created religious beliefs
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Cultural systems never change
When one part of the system changes all other parts change
When one part of the system changes some other parts have to change as well
Changes never take place randomly within a cultural system
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First arose in Germany
Spread in widening circles from several cultural centers
Dismisses the idea of less advanced cultures
Explains less advanced cultures as those pushed to marginal areas
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Natural selection
Mutation
Gene flow
Genetic drift
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Revolution
Cultural borrowing
Acculturation
Stimulus diffusion
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Fire
The bow and arrow
Phonetic alphabets
Domestication and pottery
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Is always violent
Is seldom violent
Is usually instigated by the young
Always involves changes from within a society
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Kulturkreise
Diffusionist
Historical particularism
Unilineal evolutionism
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The radioactive properties of uranium
He laws of relativity
The nature of a nuclear chain reaction
The atomic bomb
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Fire
Pottery
Writing
Metallurgy
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Emphasized the diffusion of cultural items among all societies
Discounted diffusion as an important process of culture change
Proposed that important cultural items arose in one or a few societies
Proposed that all important cultural items first arose in Greece
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Revolution
Cultural borrowing
Acculturation
Stimulus diffusion
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Importance of field work and data collection
Holism and cultural relativity
Search of general laws of cultural evolution
Importance of the relationship between culture and environment
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Natural selection
Mutation
Gene flow
Genetic drift
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The people were not advanced enough to expand their discovery
The technological skills and knowledge were not present for more complex uses
There were no other practical uses for the wheel where it was invented
The people had nothing to transport that warranted wheeled vehicles
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The process where young people learn the cultural norms of their society
Voluntary culture change generated from within a society
The violent forcing of one society's culture upon another
A rapid, extensive diffusion of cultural items from a dominant culture
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90%
50%
25%
10%
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It placed too much emphasis on independent invention
It relied on a predetermined scheme into which new data were forced
It ignored that fact that some societies never change
It was ethnocentric
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Greece
Rome
China
Egypt
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It accounts for most a society's cultural inventory
Diffused items are usually modified to fit the receiving society's culture
Some potentially borrowed items are rejected by the receiving society
The U.S. is unique in that most of our cultural items were invented here
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