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Vocab 3.1-3.2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Areas where many people share an element of culture | cultural region |
| A group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, objects & shared systems, customs, and traditions | culture |
| Attributes of a culture | cultural trait |
| Series of interrelated traits | cultural complex |
| The area in which a unique culture or specific trait develops | cultural hearth |
| To spread to other places | diffuse |
| Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture | taboos |
| Used to encompass all 3 cultural designations, long-held beliefs, values, and practices, resistant to change | traditional culture |
| Beliefs and practices of small homogenous groups, living in isolated rural ares, slow to change | folk culture |
| Members of an ethnic group reside in their ancestral lands, posses unique cultural traits (like language) | indigenous culture |
| Refers to the increased integration of the world economy since 1970s | globalization |
| Cultural traits spread quickly over a large area & are adopted by various groups (clothes, music, movies, businesses) | popular culture |
| Elements adopted worldwide | global culture |
| The modification of the environment by a group, visible reflection of a groups culture, also known as built environment | cultural landscape |
| Tangible elements of culture | artifacts |
| Consists of tangible things, or things that can be experienced by the senses (art, clothing, food, music, sports, housing types, etc) | material culture |
| Consists of intangible concepts, not having a physical presence (beliefs, values, practices, aesthetics) | mentifacts |
| Compromised by mentifacts | nonmaterial culture |
| Ways people organize their society | sociofacts |
| Phenomenon in which many modern cultural landscapes exhibit a great deal of homogeneity | placelessness |
| Physical artifacts humans have created that form part of the landscape | built environment |
| Style that reflects a local cultures history | traditional architecture |
| Developed after the 1960s, mostly concrete/brick structures, high-rise with steel and glass siding | postmodern architecture |
| Extension of postmodern, uses multiple advances to create buildings that rotate, curve, and stretch | contemporary architecture |
| Membership within a group of people who have common experiences and similar characteristics | ethnicity |
| Clusters of people of the same culture | ethnic enclaves |
| Larger areas that include cultural regions | cultural realms |
| Specific places and natural features that have religious significance; also called sacred sites | sacred place |
| Occurs when one group of people is dispersed to various locations, either because of exile, prosecution, or voluntary | diaspora |
| The first group to establish cultural and religious customs in a space | charter group |
| Ethnic concentrations in rural areas | ethnic islands |
| New cultural imprints on the landscape due to ethnic groups moving in and out | sequent occupancy |
| The process of re-embracing the uniqueness and authenticity of a place | neolocalism |
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