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HuG Unit 3
Culture - Culture
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acculturation | The process by which a culture is transformed due to the massive adoption of cultural traits from another society--it is what happens to a culture when alien traits diffuse in on a large scale and substantially replace traditional cultural patterns. |
| Assimilation | The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, often used to describe immigrant adaptation to a new place of residence. |
| Anatolian Theory vs. Kurgan Theory | Competing theories that dispute the point of origin and propose the dispersal of Proto-Indo-Europeans. |
| Built Environment | Refers to the man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places. |
| Carl Sauer | Geographer from the University of California at Bed defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental of graphical analysis. |
| Cultural Adaptation | Activities that facilitate the process of cultural assimilation. |
| Cultural Attributes | Characteristics or quality of patterns of human activities. |
| Cultural Barriers | Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture. |
| Cultural Identity | The (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as she/he is influenced by her/his belonging to a group or culture. |
| Cultural Landscape | The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape. |
| Cultural Realm | The most highly generalized regions of culture in geography and are best seen on a world map. Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, is a cultural realm. |
| Cultural Synthesis (Syncretism) | The blending of two or more cultural influences. |
| Culture | A group of belief systems, norms and values practiced by a people. |
| Culture Complex | A discrete combination of culture traits. |
| Culture Region | An area defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features. |
| Culture Trait | A single element of normal practice in a culture such as the wearing of a turban. |
| Folk Culture | The practice of particular customs of a relatively small group of people that increases that group's uniqueness. |
| Heart | Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture. |
| Heterogeneous | Composed of different parts or characteristics in a population. |
| Homogenous | Composed of similar parts or characteristics in a population. |
| Innovation Adoption | The embracing, accepting and spreading of new ideas and concepts. |
| Maladaptive Diffusion | The spatial spreading of an innovation in to an area where it is not appropriate – like a house with a basement in coastal Georgia. |
| Material Culture | The things humans construct such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance and food. |
| Multiculturalism | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. |
| Nation | A culturally defined group of people with a shared past and a common future who relate to a territory. |
| Non-Material Culture | Beliefs, practices, aesthetics and value of a group of people, non-tangible things constructed by humans. |
| Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.. |
| Toponym | The study of the practice of place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements, terrain features and streams. |
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