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Culture

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Acculturation   The process of adjustment to the dominant culture. but still maintain major elements of their own culture  
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Assimilation   The process of giving up ALL or MOST of the cultural traditions and adopting the social customs of the dominant culture of a place.  
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Built environment   The man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to large cities  
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Centrifugal forces   A cultural value that tends to pull people apart  
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Centripetal forces   A cultural value that tends to unify people  
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Cultural artifacts   Anything created by humans which gives information about the culture of its creator and users. (Think about the cultural artifact assignment.)  
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Cultural convergence   Cultural convergence is the theory that two cultures will be more and more like each other as their interactions increase. Basically, the more that cultures interact, the more that their values, behaviors, arts, and customs will start to reflect each other. This is because of improved transportation and communication  
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Cultural divergence   is the tendency for cultures to become dissimilar over time.  
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Cultural hearth   The area in which a unique culture or specific trait develops/originates .  
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Cultural landscape   The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape (built environment)  
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Cultural relativism   The ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make judgements using the standards of one's own culture. The goal of this is promote understanding of cultural practices that are not typically part of one's own culture.  
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Culture   The enduring behaviors, ideas attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next  
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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.  
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Ethnic enclave   A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area (China Town, San Francisco)  
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Ethnocentrism   A belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group  
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Folk culture   Culture traditionally practiced by a small, HOMOGENEOUS, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.  
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Globalization   Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.  
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Habit   A repetitive act performed by an INDIVIDUAL  
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Indigenous people   Native to a particular region (Native Americans)  
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Mentifacts   Language, religion, artistic pursuits, folk stories, myths that make up the non-material aspects of a culture.  
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Multiculturalism   The coexistence of several cultures in one society, with the ideal of all cultures being valued and worth of study. (U.S.A)  
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Nativism   Favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people  
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Placelessness   Loss of uniqueness in a place (think uniform landscape)  
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Popular culture   Culture found in a large, HETEROGENEOUS society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.  
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Postmodern architecture   Combines traditional and contemporary influences  
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Traditional architecture   Buildings use building materials available and reflect social/environmental customs of the people (EX log cabins)  
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Sense of place   The special perception we have a certain place based on our feelings, emotions, and associations with that place.  
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Sequent occupancy   The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.  
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Sociofacts   The education and political institutions, religious organizations, family structure, etc. That make up the non-material aspects of a culture  
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Syncretism   The birth of a new culture trait from blending two or more cultural traits  
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Taboo   A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.  
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Transculturation   When an equal exchange of traits or influence between two culture groups occurs  
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Uniform landscape   The spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another (McDonald's world wide)  
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Toponyms   Place names  
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Cultural practices   The social activities and interactions-ranging from religious rituals to food preferences to clothing that collectively distinguish group identity.  
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Cultural beliefs   The predominant beliefs in a culture about right and wrong, what is most important in life, and how life should be lived. May also include beliefs about where and how life originated and what happens after death.  
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Diffusion   The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time  
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Placemaking   The deliberate shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction and improve a community's quality of life (Think parks)  
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