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III. Cultural
III. Cultural Patterns & Processes (Martha Sharma)
| Vocab Question | Definition |
|---|---|
| Assimilation | Process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture |
| Acculturation | Process of adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage |
| Cultural Adaptation | Adjusting a translation based on the cultural environment of the target language. |
| Cultural core/periphery pattern | The core-periphery idea that the core houses main economic power of region and the outlying region or periphery houses lesser economic ties |
| Cultural Ecology | The geographic study of human environmental relationships |
| Cultural Identity | Ones belief in belonging to a group or certain cultural aspect |
| Cultural Landscape | The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape |
| Cultural Realm | Distinct traditions, beliefs, and social life brought or controlled by a dominion of a monarchy of a certain region |
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition. |
| Culture Region: Formal (Uniform) | An area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics |
| Culture Region: Core | Center of economic activity |
| Culture Region: Periphery | Outlying region of economic activity |
| Culture Region: Functional (Nodal) | Region organized at a node or focal point |
| Culture Region: Vernacular (perceptual-regional self-awareness) | A place that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity |
| Innovation Adoption | Study of how why and at what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture |
| Maladaptive diffusion | Diffusion of a process with negative side effects or What works well in one region may not in another |
| Sequence Occupancy | Refers to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint proposed by Derwent Whittlesey |
| Religion | the faithfulness to codified beliefs and rituals that generally involve a faith in a spiritual nature. This is important to HG because man wars have been fought over it |
| Diffusion Types: Expansion | The spread of one feature from one place to another in a snowballing process |
| Diffusion Types: Hierarchical | The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places |
| Diffusion Types: Contagious | The rapid widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population |
| Diffusion Types: Stimulus | The spread of an underlying principle when the characteristic fails to diffuse |
| Diffusion Types: Relocation | The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another |
| Exclave/Enclave | A enclave is a country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country; an exclave is one which is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory. This is important to HG because a lot of countries a |
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