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Chapter 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Artifact | object made by human beings. |
| Region | an area characterized by similarity or by cohesiveness that sets it apart from other areas. |
| Possibilism | the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions. |
| Core | the zone of the greatest concentration or homogeniety of the culture traits that characterize a region |
| 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 actitvities. |
| Habit | a repetitive act that a particular individual performs. |
| Folk Culture | culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. |
| Environmenatl Determinism | the view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development , also known as environmentalism. |
| Domain | outside the core of the culture region in which the culture is still dominate but less intense. |
| Custom | a repetitive act of a group performed to the extent that it becomes a characteristic. |
| Culture Hearth | a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditons spread outward. |
| Culture | the shared understandings that guide behavior and values and condition of a group's perception of the world. it is learned from one generation to the next and evolves over time. |