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Chapter 4
Culture
Term | Definition |
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Culture | group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people |
Folk culture | small, homogenous population that is typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits that are passed down from generation to generation |
Popular culture | cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are not part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced, global society |
Local culture | people who see themselves as a collective or a community, share experiences, customs, and traits, and work to persevere their traits and customs in a place |
Material culture | physical aspects of culture, including art, tools, buildings, and clothing that are made by people |
Nonmaterial culture | non physical aspects of culture, including beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values that are defined by people |
Hierarchical diffusion | spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on a hierarchy of connectedness. Specific type of expansion diffusion |
Hearth | area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates |
Customs | common practice or routine way of doing things in a culture |
assimilation | when a minority group loses distinct cultural traits, such as dress, food, or speech, and adopts the customs of the dominant culture. Can happen voluntarily or by force |
Indigenous local cultures | people who see themselves as a community and also identify as indigenous, or original, to a place |
context | the physical and human geographies creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act |
Neolocalism | conscious effort to define a sense of place for local or regional culture. Often used by local businesses, such as microbreweries, to identify local products with local or regional culture |
Ethnic neighborhoods | area within an urban area where a relatively large group of people from one ethnic group or local culture lives |
Gentrification | renewal or rebuilding of a lower income neighborhood into a middle- to upper-class neighborhood, which results in driving up property values and rents and the dispossession of lower income residents |
Cultural appropriation | when a culture adopts customs and knowledge from another culture and uses them for its own benefit |
Commodification | transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded |
Authenticity | the idea that one place or experience is the true, actual one |
Distance Decay | decreasing likelihood of diffusion with greater distance from the hearth |
Time-space compression | increasing connectedness between world cities from improved communication and transportation networks |
Music festival | concert event featuring multiple performers and additional entertainment that often lasts more than one day |
Hallyu | South Korean waves of popular culture, especially in music, television, and movies |
Reterritorialization | when a local cultures shares an aspect of popular culture as their own, adopting the popular culture to their culture |
Stimulus diffusion | a process of diffusion where two cultural traits blend to create a distinct trait |
Relocation diffusion | spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them |
Cultural landscape | the visible human imprint on the landscape |
Placelessness | loss of uniqueness of a location so that one place looks like the next |
Convergence of cultural landscapes | merging of cultural landscapes that happens with broad diffusion of landscape traits |
Urban morphology | the layout of a city, including the sizes and shapes of buildings and pathways of infrastructure |