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Culture

Chapter 4 Vocabulary

TermDefinition
Culture The sum total of knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society-Ralph Linton (different types of cultures)
Folk Culture The beliefs and practices of a small homogenous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are relatively isolated and slow to change. Cultural traits such as dress models, dwellings, traditions.
Popular Culture Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music and are part of today's changeable,urban-based, media-influenced western societies (modern art)
Hierarchical Diffusion Spreading of culture outward from most interconnected places or from centers of wealth or importance.
Hearth The area where an idea or cultural trait originates (USA)
Assimilation process through which people loose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture. (derived from trade, invasion, and/or intermarrying between groups)
Cultural Appropriation the process by which cultures adapt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit (sports teams using Native American tribal names)
Ethnic Enclave Clusters of people of the same culture but surrounded by people of a culture that is dominant in the region
Time-Space Compression social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity
Cultural Landscape The visual imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts sequentially imprinted on the landscape by the activities of various human occupants (skyscrapers)
Acculturation An ethnic or immigrant group moving to a new area adopts the values and practices of the larger group that has received them, while still maintaining major elements of their own culture
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