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AP Human unit 3
AP Human Geography unit 3 review
Term | Definition |
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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 |