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Ch. 4 & 7 Key Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups |
| Popular Culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
| Material Culture | The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools, campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture |
| Nonmaterial Culture | Ideas, knowledge and beliefs that influence people's behavior |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | Idea spreads to a few select people 1st before going to others |
| Assimilate | The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture |
| Culture | A particular group's material characteristics, behavioral patterns, beliefs, social norms, and attitudes that are shared and transmitted. |
| Cultural Appropriation | A situation where a dominant social or cultural group takes an expression, idea, or product from an oppressed cultural group and uses it for its own benefit |
| Contagious Diffusion | Idea spreads out in all directions to all people |
| Ethnic Neighborhood | An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background |
| Authenticity | In the context of local cultures or customs, the accuracy with which the single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs |
| Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. |
| Relocational Diffusion | People move from hearth |
| Reterritorialization | When a culture trait moves to another "territory" something about it changes to reflect the culture/norms of that new place |
| Cultural Landscape | The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape |
| Placelessness | Defined by the geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next |
| Acculturation | The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another. |
| Time-Space Compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation system |
| Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate |
| Dowry Deaths | Disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom (the dowry) have, in some extreme cases, led to the death of the bride |
| Identity | How we make sense of ourselves; how people see themselves at different scales |
| Identifying Against | Constructing an identity by first defining the "other" and then defining ourselves as "not the others" |
| Race | Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color |
| Racism | 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 |
| Sense of Place | The emotive bonds and attachments people develop or experience in particular locations and environments, at scales ranging from the home to the nation. |
| Ethnocentrism | The feeling that one's own ethnic group is superior |
| Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth |
| Gendered | Places designed for men or women |
| Residential Segregation | The degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the urban environment |
| Cultural Homogenization | The tendency toward uniformity of ideas, values, technologies, and institutions among associated culture groups. |
| Habit | A repetitive act performed by a particular individual |
| Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom |
| Xenophobia | Fear of people who are from other countries |
| Stimulus Diffusion | Idea leaves hearth and hits a barrier; changes in order to spread behind barrier |
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