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| Directed change intended to bring a society's economy, particulary, but also many other aspects of its culture in line with that of the industrialized nations such as the US or Japan |
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| The borrowing or migration of a cultural practice or idea from one social group to another |
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| Long-term gradual cultural change, sometimes not perceived by members of the society |
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| The destruction of a culture, with or without destruction of the population that practiced it |
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| The formation of a new culture |
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| The cultural anthropologists' practice of always referring to some culture as it existed at a specific time in the past |
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| The study of the history of a culture over a certain period in time, or the reconstruction of a past culture at some point in time |
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| The change process in which societies are drawn into greater interaction through trade, communications, corporate and bureaucratic structures, and travel |
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| Glocalization, or indigenization |
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| The culture change process undertaken by a group reshaping, reinterpreting, resisting, or attempting to control the local manifestations of globalization |
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| A culture change process involving borrowing and then changing ideas |
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| A cultural change movement stressing the necessity of a change in adherents' understanding, often led by a charismatic leader claiming the ability to lead the people out of error and into a new relationship with the world |
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| In future studies, an imagined description of how events will unfold, based upon current trends |
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| A borrowing that rearranges elements and combines them with other features of the culture, perhaps selectivity dropping elements and shifting emphasis |
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| In anthropology, describes the arrangement and explanation of events in time, a historical or evolutionary perspective |
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