C 4-7 Flashcards
folk culture
small, homogeneous pop; rural, cohesive culture
ppular culture
large, heterogeneous pop; urban, changing culture
local culture
group of ppl that see themselves as collective; shared traits
material culture
things constructed
nonmaterial culture
beliefs, practices, aesthetics, values, etc
hearth
point of origin
neolocalism
seek regional culture and reinvigorate it
ethnic neighborhoods
a separate area to practice customs
commodification
something becomes valued in the market (jewelry)
time-space compression
how quickly innovations diffuse and interlink
opinion leaders
help diffuse products hierarchically with social media
reterritorialization
process that ppl produce aspects of popular culture to themselves
placelessness
loss of uniqueness of place in cultural landscape
global-local continuum
what happens at one scale is not independent of what happens at other scales
glocalization
ppl in local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes
identity
how we make sense of ourselves
identifying against
define others, then ourselves opposingly
race
physical attributes that have developed over time
racism
socioeconomic differences that fuel sense of superiority attached to race
succession
new immigrant groups move to places abandoned by older groups
sense of place
infusing a place with meaning and feeling
ethnicity
affiliation with group of ppl bound by common ancestry and culture
space
social relations stretched out
queer theory
highlights contextual nature of opposition to the straights and focuses on political engagement of us gays with the heteronorm
dowry deaths
arranged marriages; disputes over price paid to groom’s family that leads to abuse or death of the wife