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AP Human Chapter 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sociofacts | The educational and political institutions, religious organizations, family structure, etc. that make up the nonmaterial aspects of a culture. |
| Cultural Ecology | A geographic approach that emphasizes human-enviroment relationships. |
| Cultural Complex A | A related set of culture traits descriptive of one aspect of a society's behavior or activity. |
| Environmental Determinism | A late 19th early 20th century approach to the study of geography which argued that the laws sought by geographers could be found in physical sciences. |
| Hearth | The region from which a culture originated of. |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of a feature or tend from one key person or node of authority or power to another persons or place. |
| Homogeneous Population | A population that consists of people that have the same of similar ethnic, racial, religious, or social background. |
| Possiblism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human action, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. |
| Assimilation | The merging of one culture group into another through acculturation |
| Core-Domain-Sphere Model | Core- High intensity of cultural traits. Domain- Cultural traits dominates, not as much as core. Sphere- Area where culture has influenced but not as much. |
| Cultural Landscape | The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. |
| Culture | The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition. |
| Culture Region | A portion of the Earth's surface occupied by populations sharing recognizable and distinctive cultural characteristics. |
| Custom | The frequent repetition of an act to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act. |
| Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. |
| Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something a world wide scope. |
| Material Culture | Food, clothing and shelter. |
| Mentifact | Nonmaterial parts of a culture such as language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths, etc. |
| Popular Culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. |
| Relocation Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. |
| Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom. |
| Terroir | The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes. |
| Acculturation | The process of adopting the culture traits of another group |
| Culture Trait | A single feature of a culture such as religion or language. |
| Habit | A repetitive act performed by a particular individual. |
| Heterogeneous Population | A population that consists of people that have many different ethnic, racial, religious, or social backgrounds. |
| Uniform Landscapes | Distribution of popular culture around the world tends to produce more uniform landscapes. |
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