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primary innovation
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the creatio, invention, or cheance discovery of a completely new idea, method, or device
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secondary innovation
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a new and deliberate application or modifacatoin of an existing idea, method, or device
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diffusion
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the spread of certain ideas, customs, or practices from one culture to another
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cultural loss
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the abandonment of existing practice or trait
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acculturation
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massive culture changes that people are forced tomake as a consequence of intensive first hand contact between their own group and another, often more powerful, society
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ethnocide
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the violent eradication of an ethnic group's collective identity as a distinctive nation
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genocide
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the physical extermination of one people by another, often in the name of progress, either as a deliberate act or as the accidental outcome of activities carried out by one people with little regard for their impact on others
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tradition
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customary ideas and practices passed on from generation to generation, which in a modernizing society may form an obstacle to new ways of doing things.
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syncretism
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in acculturation, the blending of indigenous and foreign traits to form a new system
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rebellion
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organized armed resistance to an established government or authority in power
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revolution
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radical change in a society or culture. in the political arena, it involves the forced overthrow of an old government and establishment of completely new one
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modernization
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the process of political and socioeconomic change, whereby developing societies acquire some of the cultural characteristics of Western industrial societies
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