Chapter 4

Question 0

Assimilation

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Behavioral an structural process where a little population reduces and loses its culture to dominate society

Question 1

Acculturation

Answer 1

Process by which a person from one culture adopts traits of another culture

Question 2

Cultural core

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A culture region’s centralized zone of concentration, with the greatest homogeneity culture traits that characterize it

Question 3

Cultural adaption

Answer 3

people adapt to culture of previously existing culture

Question 4

Cultural landscape

Answer 4

a landscape that had been changed by humans in a way that reflects their culture

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Culture

Answer 5

knowledge and values shared by a society

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Culture region

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An area in which people have shared cultural traits

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Cultural ecology

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Multiple interactions and relationships between a culture and the natural environment

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Culture realm

Answer 8

cluster of regions in which related culture system prevails

Question 9

Cultural identity

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Belief in belonging to a group or central cultural aspect

Question 10

Innovation adoption

Answer 10

study of how, why, and at what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture

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Maladaptive diffusion

Answer 11

what works well in one culture does not work in another

Question 12

Sequent occupance

Answer 12

when an area has been inhabited and transformed by a succession of culture groups which leave their imprint

Question 13

Cultural traits

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Specific customs that are apart of everyday life of a particular culture

Question 14

Cultural integration

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The process of combining cultures together

Question 15

Core, periphery, domain

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the core house the main economic power of the region and the outlying region and that the periphery houses the lesser economic ties

Question 16

Syncretism

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The fusion of two distinctive cultural traits into a unique new hybrid trait

Question 17

Cultural transition zones

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Areas where two cultures come together

Question 18

Adaptive strategies

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a society’s system of economic production, used to help a species survive

Question 19

Anglo-American landscape

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an American whose language and ancestry are English

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Formal region

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an area in which everyone shares in one of more distinctive characteristic

Question 21

Functional region

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a region defined by a particular set of activities or interactions that occur within it

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Architectural form

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The look of a house effected by the available materials in the environment

Question 23

Built environment

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part of the physical landscape that represent material culture

Question 24

Folk culture

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traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups

Question 25

Folk food

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Traditional food Passed down recipes

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Folk house

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Type of housing based on the environment and popularity at the time

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Folk songs

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anonymously composed songs ; tells a story ; everyday life

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Folklore

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Undocumented lore (stories, riddles, songs) of a culture

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Material culture

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Object of natural or cultural significance

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Popular culture

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Culture found in a large, heterogenous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics

Question 31

Survey systems

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step of the system analysis to further define the nature and scope of the project and identify the strengths and weaknesses of the company

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Traditional architecture

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traditional building styles of different cultures, religions and places

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Cultural hearth

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Where customs originate from

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Sense of place

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State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in that place

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Vernacular region

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Based on perception People believe a place exists because of culture

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Expansion diffusion

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How a culture spreads

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Hierarchical diffusion

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through established structure

Question 38

Contagious diffusion

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spreads uniformly throughout an area

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Stimulus diffusion

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Diffuses from the hearth, the original idea is changed by adopters ; ex is tea

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Relocation diffusion

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Entire group of people leave

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Diffusion

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Process by which innovation is transmitted across space

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Role of diffusion and globalization on popular culture

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Spreads popular culture faster -Internet, television Effects things like food and clothing

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Role of diffusion and globalization on folk culture

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Globalization is lessening folk culture Younger generations are more influenced by popular culture Less isolated

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Impact on natural resources

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Folk and popular culture depletes the natural resources