Cultural Geography Unit 3

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

All of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects. The things that make up our daily lives.

Question 2

Cultural Traits

Answer 2

Building blocks of a culture developed through communication (aka when behaviors, beliefs, or customs are shared.

Question 3

Cultural Complex

Answer 3

Compilation of various interrelated traits.

Question 4

Material Culture

Answer 4

Made up of things that people make and give value to.

Question 5

Non-Material Culture

Answer 5

Made up of the ideas of a society.

Question 6

Examples of material Culture are…

Answer 6

Clothing, buildings, technology, food

Question 7

Examples of non-material culture are…

Answer 7

Language, religion, political organizations, customs of traditions.

Question 8

Folk Culture

Answer 8

• Beliefs and practices of small homogenous societies.
• Often living in rural areas that are isolated and change slowly.
• Diverse ways people have adapted to physical environments.
• Preserves traditions.

Question 9

Popular Culture

Answer 9

• Beliefs and practices of large, heterogeneous societies.
• Shared habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
• Tends to promote uniformity in beliefs, values, and the cultural landscape in many places.
• Emphasizes trying what is new, trendy.

Question 10

Cultural Revelation

Answer 10

Evaluating a culture by its own standards using apathy and seeking to understand the culture for what it is.

Question 11

Ethnocentrism

Answer 11

Evaluating a culture through the lens of one’s own culture.

Question 12

Cultural Hearths

Answer 12

Areas typically historic, which a unique culture of specific trait develops… it is where everything begins.

Question 13

What is a “norm”?

Answer 13

Something that is standard and accepted and expected.

Question 14

Cultural Landscape

Answer 14

Combination of cultural, economic, and natural elements that make up any landscape.

Question 15

Place making is…

Answer 15

The process in which a community or cultural group gets together to plan a public place.

Question 16

Language contribute to sense of Place by…

Answer 16

Influencing communication, expressions, greetings, slang words, different dialects.

Question 17

Ethnicity/Cultural Background contribute to sense of Place by…

Answer 17

Ethnic enclaves, demand for certain goods/services, holidays, celebrations, traditional trades.

Question 18

Religion contributes to sense of Place by…

Answer 18

usually seen in architecture, sequent occupance, shapes the values of places.

Question 19

Nationalism contributes to the sense of Place by…

Answer 19

Pride in one’s country, patriotic, national anthem, pledge of allegiance, flag

Question 20

Centripetal forces

Answer 20

Forces that pull people together, AKA unifying.

Question 21

Centrifugal forces

Answer 21

Forces that pull people away, AKA breaking groups apart.

Question 22

Example of centripetal forces

Answer 22

Nationalism, religion, language, productive economy and strong leadership, external threats.

Question 23

Examples of centrifugal forces

Answer 23

Religion, language, ethnic of racial differences, political corruption and faulty economy.

Question 24

Religion

Answer 24

An organized system for beliefs, ceremonies, practices and worship that focus on the deepest of life’s mysteries.

Question 25

Ethnicity

Answer 25

Membership in a group of people who share characteristics such as ancestry, language, customs, history and common experiences.

Question 26

Race

Answer 26

Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait.

Question 27

Racism

Answer 27

The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

Question 28

Cultural Diffusion

Answer 28

The spreading of information, ideas, behaviors, and other cultural traits.

Question 29

Relocation Diffusion

Answer 29

Culture spreads where people move. And people bring their culture with them where they move to.

Question 30

Expansion Diffusion (4 types)

Answer 30

Culture spreads without people migrating

Question 31

Hierarchical Diffusion

Answer 31

The spread of an idea from a node to other people/places (often from those in power) ex: phone

Question 32

Reverse Hierarchical Diffusion

Answer 32

Spreading from lower class to higher class or rural to urban. ex: Walmart, tattoos

Question 33

Stimulus Diffusion

Answer 33

Spread of underlying principles even though characteristic itself doesn't diffuse. ex: fast food

Question 34

Contagious Diffusion

Answer 34

Rapid and widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout a population. ex: TikTok dances

Question 35

Acculturation

Answer 35

Ethnic groups moving to new areas to adopt values of the larger group while maintaining their own culture.

Question 36

Assimilation

Answer 36

An ethnic group becomes similar to the group they are joining and most defining features can no longer be distinguished.

Question 37

Multiculturalism

Answer 37

The coexistence of several cultures in one society.

Question 38

Nativism

Answer 38

Anti-immigrant attitudes that sometimes form amongst the cultural majority.

Question 39

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Answer 39

EXAMPLES

Question 40

Globalization is...

Answer 40

A combination of historical Diffusion and modern diffusion

Question 41

Cultural Divergence

Answer 41

People may start to leave their culture or abandon certain elements of it.

Question 42

Cultural Convergence

Answer 42

People start having one mass global culture.

Question 43

Religion is...

Answer 43

An organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, practices, and worship that focus on the deepest of life's mysteries.

Question 44

Atheism

Answer 44

A belief that God does not exist

Question 45

Agnosticism

Answer 45

The belief that the existence of God cannot be proven.

Question 46

Fundamentalism

Answer 46

An attempt to follow a literal interpretation of a religious faith.

Question 47

Monotheism

Answer 47

A belief in one God

Question 48

Polytheism

Answer 48

The belief in many Gods.

Question 49

Ethnic Religions

Answer 49

Appealing to one group of people in one place.

Question 50

Universalizing Religions

Answer 50

Attempting to be global and seek converts regardless of ethnic background.

Question 51

Theocracies

Answer 51

In which a country/nation is led by religious leaders and ruled by religious laws.

Question 52

The 5 main world religions.

Answer 52

Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity

Question 53

Hinduism - ETHNIC religion

Answer 53

Oldest religion and is polytheistic. Hearth is INDIA Diffused through the British empire

Question 54

Judaism - ETHNIC religion

Answer 54

Heart is EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Relocation Diffusion Shatter belt region

Question 55

Buddhism - UNIVERSALIZING religion

Answer 55

Hearth is SouthEast Asia Missionaries throughout South East Asia Rapid spread on Silk Road. - Contagious and relocation

Question 56

Islam - UNIVERSALIZING religion

Answer 56

Hearth is the Middle East Islamic Conquests Trade from Indian Ocean to SE Asia

Question 57

Christianity - UNIVERSALIZING religion

Answer 57

Hearth is the Roman Empire Immigration to the U.S. the Bible

Question 58

Assimilation

Answer 58

Dominant culture absorbing another - sometimes destroying it, sometimes incorporating.

Question 59

Acculturation

Answer 59

Borrowing, adopting, sharing some traits, without one culture overtaking the other.

Question 60

Syncretism

Answer 60

Something NEW being created form the combination of cultural traits.

Question 61

Multiculturalism

Answer 61

Coexisting, but still distinct cultures in the landscape; traits remain separate.