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Unit 3 APHG
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture | is the sum of the human experience by a group of people living together it's all things that make up our daily lives |
| Material culture | is made up of things people make and often give value to, such as cars, homes, or athletic wear worn by famous athletes |
| Non-material culture | Is made of the ideas of a society, which are often considered dear to the group |
| Folk culture | local and homogeneous |
| Pop culture | spreads across regions and is heterogenous |
| Cultural Relativism | evaluating a culture by its own standards can humanize a cultural group |
| Ethnocentrism | evaluating another culture through the lens of one's own culture |
| Cultural Landscape | the combination of culture, economic, and natural elements that make up any landscapes |
| Sequent Occupancy | successive societies that leave their cultural imprints on a single place, and each group's layer adds to and builds upon the cumulative |
| Place | a location's physical and cultural characteristics |
| Placemaking | a process in which a community or cultural group gets together to plan public space |
| Language | can influence toponyms or forms of communication |
| Ethnicity | can influence the goods and services available, architecture, or where people live, creating ethnic enclaves |
| Religion | can also influence toponyms, architecture, and even who can live where |
| Centripetal | unites a group of people |
| Centrifugal | things that divide a group of people |
| Relocation Diffusion | ideas spread through people physically moving and bringing cultural phenomena, innovations, diseases, and more with them |
| Contagious Diffusion | the cultural phenomenon spreads rapidly to almost everyone |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | ideas spready hierarchically-starting with someone of power in society and spreading down the social hierarchy to some people. Can also be that it starts in large cities and eventually spreads to smaller towns |
| Reverse Hierarchical Diffusion | ideas spread the reverse of hierarchically-from less populated areas and smaller towns up to larger cities and people of power |
| Stimulus Diffusion | the full idea does not spread, but the main or underlying idea spreads |
| Lingua Franca | a shared, common language used for communication between people who have different native tongues |
| Cultural Divergence | people may start to leave their culture or abandon certain elements of it |
| Cultural Convergence | people start having one mass, global culture |
| Isogloss | a boundary that separated language regions |
| Assimilation | the process of absorbing, blending, or taking in new information, traits, or groups into a larger whole |
| the adoption or use of elements from a minority or marginalized culture by a member of a dominant culture in an exploitative, disrespectful, or unacknowledged way |