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AP Human unit 3
AP Human Geography unit 3 review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| culture | the beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies shared y a society and passed down from generation to generation |
| popular culture | Found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits (such as wearing jeans) despite differences in other personal characteristics |
| folk culture | Traditionally practiced primarily by small homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas and may include a custom |
| ethnocentrism | Use your own culture as the center/correct culture and evaluate all other cultures based on that |
| cultural relativism | Refers to not judging a culture to our own standards of what is right, wrong, strange or normal. |
| cultural landscape | combinations of physical features, agricultural and industrial practices, religious and linguistic characteristics, evidence of sequent occupancy, and other expressions of culture including traditional and postmodern architecture and land-use patterns. |
| ethnic neighborhoods | An area (often in a city) where one ethnicity primarily resides |
| religion | |
| centripetal force | force that tends to unify people within a state and enhance support for a state. |
| centrifugal forces | forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state. |
| indo-european | Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Romance, and Balto-Slavic |
| Judaism | |
| islam | |
| Sikhism | |
| buddism | |
| Christianity | |
| hinduism |