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Unit 3 Vocab
AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocab Ch 6-8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| centerfugal force | a force that divides a group of people |
| centripetal force | a force that unites a group of people |
| cultural landscape | a natural landscape that has been modified by humans, reflecting thei cultural beliefs and values |
| cultural norm | a shared standard that guides a group of people |
| culture | the beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies shared by society and passed down from generation to generation |
| cultural relativsm | the evaluation of a culture by its own standards |
| cultural trait | a shared object or cultural practice |
| denomination | a seperte church organization that unites a number of local congregation |
| dialect | a variation of a stanard language specific to a general area, with differences in pronunciation, degree of rapidity of speech, word choice, and spelling. |
| ethnicity | the state belonging to a specific group of people who whare common cultural characteristics |
| ethnic neighborhood | a cultural landscape wihtin a comminity of people outside thier area of origin |
| ethnocentrism | the tendancy of ethnic groups to evaluate other groups according |
| gender idenity | an individual's innermost conept of self as male, female, a blend of both, or neither |
| gendered space | a space designed and deliberatly incorporated into the landscape to accomodate gender roles |
| gentrification | the renovations and improvements conforming to middle class preferences. |
| identity | the ways in which humans make sense of themselves and how they wish to be viewed by others |
| language | a distict system of communication that is a carrier of human thoughts and culture identities |
| pilgrimage | a journey to a holy place for spiritual reasons |
| place making | a community driven process in which people collaborate to create a place where they can live, work, play, and learn |
| popular culture | the widespread behaviors, beliefs, and practice of ordinary people in society at a given point in time |
| postmodern archiecture | a building stage that emerged as a reaction to "modern" designs, and values diversity in design |
| religion | a system of spiritual beliefs that help form cultural perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, and values. |
| sect | a relativelysmall group that has seperated from an established religious denomination |
| sense of place | the subective feelings and memories, people associate with a geographic location |
| traditional architecture | the stablished building state of different cultures, religions, and places |
| traditional culture | the long-established behaviors, beliefs, and practices passed down from generation to generation |
| acculturation | the process by which people within one culture adopt some traits of another while still retaining their own distinct culture |
| assimilation | a category of acculturation in which the interaction of two cultures results in one culture adopting almost all of the customs, traditions, languages, and other cultural traits of the other |
| collectivist culture | a culture in which people are expected to confom to collective responsisbility within the family and to be obidient and respectful of elder family members |
| contagious diffusion | the process by which an idea or cultural trait spreads rapidly among people of all social classes and levels of power |
| creolization | the blending of two or more languages that may not include the features of either original language |
| cultural appropriation | the act of adopting elements of another culture |
| cultural convergence | the process by which cultures become more similar through interaction |
| cultural divergence | the process by which cultures become less similar due to conflicting beliefs. |
| cultural hearth | the area where cultural traits develop and from which cultural traits diffuse |
| diffusion | the process by which a cultural trait spreads from one place to another over time |
| expansion diffusion | the spread of cultural traits outward from where it originated from |
| hierarchical diffusion | the spread of an idea or trait from a person or place of power or place of authority to other people or places |
| lingua franca | a common language used among speakers of different languages |
| multiculturalism | a situation in which different cultures lives together without assimilating |
| relocation diffusion | the spread of culture traits through the movement of people |
| stimulus diffusion | the process by which a cultural trait or idea spreads to another culture or region but is modified to adapt to the new culture |
| syncretism | the process of innovation combining different cultural features into something new |
| ethnic religion | a religion that is closely tied with a particular ethnic group often living in a particular place |
| isolate | a language that is unrelated to any other known language |
| language branch | a collection of languages within a language family that share a common origin and separated from other branches in the same family several thousand years ago. |
| language family | a group of languages that share a common ancestral language from a particular hearth, or region of origin. |
| language group | languages within a language branch that share a common ancestor in the relatively recent past and have vocabs with high defree of over lap. |
| secularized | focused on worldly rather than spiritual concerns |
| universalizing religion | a religion that ties to the appeal to all humans and is open membership by everyone |
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