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LP - Chapter 4
Lake Park - AP Human Geography - Chapter 4 Vocabulary
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Custom | The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act |
Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups |
Popular Culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom |
Culture | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society |
Folk Culture | Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities |
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 |
Material Culture | The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people |
Nonmaterial Culture | The beliefs, practices, aesthesis, and values of a group of people |
Hearth | The area where an idea or cultural trait originates |
Assimilation | The processed through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms when they come into contact with another society or culture |
Commodification | The process through which something is given monetary value |
Cultural Appropriation | The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit |
Time-space Compression | A term associated with t work of David Harvey that refers to the social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time- space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity |
Placelessness | The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next |
Acculturation | Cultural modification or change the results when a culture group or individual adopts traits of dominant or host society; cultural development or change through borrowing |
Cultural Convergence | The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication |
Cultural Divergence | The likelihood or tendency for cultures to become increasingly dissimilar with the passage of time |
Cultural Ecology | The study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments they occupy |
Cultural Integration | The interconnectedness of all aspects of a culture: no part can be altered without creating an impact on other components or the culture |
Culture Complex | A related set of culture traits descriptive of one aspect of a society’s behavior or activity. May be as basic as food preparation, serving, and consumption or as involved as religious beliefs or business practices |
Syncretism | The development of a new form of culture trait by the fusion of two or more distinct parental elements |
Acculturation | The cultural change of a people upon direct contact with a different culture |
Assimilation | The dying out of the old culture as it becomes replaced with the culture where a person or group of people currently reside |
Folk Culture | The practice of a particular custom of a relatively small group of people that increases the group’s uniqueness |
Popular Culture | The culture that s not tied to a specific location but rather general location based on its widespread diffusion |
Cultural Trait | The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture |
Cultural Extinction | Obliteration of an entire culture by war , disease, acculturation, or a combination of the three |
Folk Culture | Refers to a constellation of cultural practices that form the sights, smells, sounds, and rituals of everyday existence in the traditional societies in which they developed |
Popular Culture | Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; weak interpersonal ties, and producing and consuming machine-made goods |
Syncretic | Traditions that borrow from both the past and the present |
Transculturation | The expansion of cultural traits through diffusion, adoption, and other related processes |