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Mrs.Rivera chapter 4
vocab
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culure | The sum total of the knowledge, attitude, and habitual bahavioral patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. |
folk culture | Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities. |
popular culture | Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced western societies. |
local culture | Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a communiy, who share experiences, customs,and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distiquish themselves from others. |
material culture | The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and similar items constructed or created by a group of people. |
nonmaterial culture | the beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and valuesTof a group of people. |
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. |
custom | Practice routinely followed by a group of people. |
cultural apporation | The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit. |
neolocalism | The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncerainty of the modern world. |
ethnic neighborhood | Neighborhood,typically situated in a larger metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culrure, in which a local culture can practice its customs. |
commodification | The process through which something is given monetary value; occurs whan a good or an idea that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a paticula price. |
time-space compression | Refers to the social and psychological effects of living in a world in hich time-space convergance has rapidly reached a high level of intensity. |
reterritorialization | With respect to poular culture, when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themsleves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own. |
cultural landscape | The visable imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape. The layers of bulidings, forms, nd artifacts sequentially imprinted on the landscape by the activities of various human occupants. |
placelessness | The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress and speech, when they come into contact with another society or culture. |
global-local continuum | The notion that what happens at the global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vise versa. This idea posits that the world is comprised of an interconnected series of relationships extend across space. |
glocalization | The precess by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes. |
hierrchical diffusion | A form of difusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. |
authenticity | In the context of local cultures or cutoms, the accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and compex local culture or is customs. |
folk-housing regions | A region in which the housing stock predominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culure of the people who have long inhabited area. |
hearth | The area where an idea or cultural trait originates. |
distance decay | The effects of distance on interacion, generally the greater the distance the less the interaction. |
diffusion routes | The spatial trajactory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spread. |