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AP Human Chapter 4
vocabulary
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 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 preserve 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 |
Indigenous local cultures | People who see themselves as a community (see local culture) 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 | Economic and financial policies that give higher income countries and organizations control over lower income countries |
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 one culture adopts customs and knowledge from another culture and uses them for its own benefit |
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 | The likelihood of a trait or innovation diffusing decreases the farther away in time or distance it moves from the origin (hearth) |
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 culture shapes an aspect of popular culture as their own, adopting the popular culture to their local culture |
Stimulus diffusion | A process of diffusion where two cultural traits blend to create a distinct trait |
Relocation diffusion | The location of a place or attribute in reference to another place or attribute |
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 the pathways of infrastructure |