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APHG Unit 3 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| long lot settlement pattern | long, narrow farms along a road or river |
| material culture | tangible, physical items produced and used by members of a specific culture group and reflective of their traditions, lifestyles, and technologies |
| nonmaterial culture | values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms |
| culture trait | a single attribute of a culture |
| local culture | rural, homogenous culture , NOT pop culture |
| indigenous culture | a culture group that constitutes that original inhabitants or a territory, distinct from the dominant national culture |
| popular culture | cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced, western societies |
| language | our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning |
| polyglot | a speaker of many languages |
| religion | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny |
| ethnic group | Group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs- strong feelings of group identity |
| race | historically defined by physical characteristics, typically skin color |
| ethnic geography | The study of diffusion, migration and mixing of peoples of different origins |
| multiculturalism | promotes including minority groups in political and social institutions |
| ethnocentric approach | understanding of another's culture from the observers point of view |
| cultural relativism | not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms |
| physical landscape | The visible non-man-made features of an area |
| placelessness | the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next |
| modernistic architecture | orderly and functional style of building design |
| postmodern architecture | has a flair for drama and being noticeable |
| sequent occupancy | the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape |
| sacred spaces | Areas or places of religious or spiritual significance. |
| secular | nonreligious |
| sense of place | The feeling that an area has a distinct and meaningful character |
| placemaking | The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community's quality of life. |
| centripetal force | a force that brings a place together |
| centrifugal force | a force that divides people and countries |
| secularization | indifference to or rejection of religion or religious consideration |
| absorbing barriers | stops diffusion |
| permeable barriers | obstacle which slows down diffusion without stopping |
| pidgin language | When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary |
| creole | A pidgin language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it |
| creolization | occurs when foreign influences integrate with local meanings and new languages are created |
| lingua franca | a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce |
| bilingualism | speaking 2 languages |
| empire | an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority |
| imperialism | A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. |
| colonialism | the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically. |
| genocide | Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group |
| time-space convergence | rate at which places move closer together in travel or communication time or costs |
| endangered language | a language that is no longer taught to children by their parents and is not used for everyday conversation |
| extinct language | language without any native speakers |
| convergence hypothesis | cultures blending and becoming more the same |
| glocalization | taking worldly cultural practices to work locally |
| culture hearth | place a trait begins and spreads from |
| language family | Group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin |
| dialect | a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group |
| accent | a way to pronounce words, can vary by region |
| monotheistic | believing in one god |
| universalizing religion | seeks converts |
| ethnic religion | A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution like Hindu and Judaism |
| proselytic | religion that grows through missionary work |
| toponyms | place names |
| polytheistic | believing in many gods |
| animistic religion | the belief that inanimate objects, such as hills, trees, rocks, rivers, etc possess souls |
| acculturation | The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another. |
| assimilation | an ethnic group blends in with the dominant culture, often losing many original traits |
| transculturation | cultural borrowing that occurs when different come into close contact both borrowing and contributing traits |
| syncretism | A blending of two or more religious traditions, creating a new religion |
| syncretic religion example | Sikhism |
| orthodox religion | believes in a "pure" faith, not open to changes or blending |
| universalizing religion examples | Christianity, Islam, Buddhism |
| Ethnic religion examples | Judaism, Hinduism |
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