HGAP Vocab (Culture)

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(n.) the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend

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Acculturation

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Process by which a culture adopts certain traits, ideas, practices from another culture for their own

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Appropriation

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Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture

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Assimilation

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Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people

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Culture

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All physical, tangible objects made and used by a group; Example; clothes, books, desks….

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Material culture

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Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities.

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Folk culture

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Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. Cultural traits such as dress, diet and music that identify and are part of today’s changeable, urban-based, media-influenced western societies.

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Popular culture

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A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others.

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Local culture

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Geographic approach that emphasizes human environment relationships.

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Cultural ecology

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ones belief in belonging to a group or certain cultural aspect. You can “identify with” a group or “identify against” a group (what you are, or what you are not).

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Cultural identity

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A practice that a group of people routinely follows. Customs regard all aspects of life. To sustain a culture, customs must be maintained.

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Custom

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A combination of cultural feature such as language and religion, economic features such as agriculture and industry, and physical features such as climate and vegetation. (defined by Carl Sauer as an area fashioned from nature by a cultural group)(Cultural Attributes)

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Cultural landscape

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The entire region throughout which a culture prevails. Criteria that may be chosen to define culture realms include religion, language, diet, customs, or economic development.

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Cultural realm

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The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contribution to the cumulative cultural landscape. Refers to such cultural succession and its lasting imprint proposed by Derwent Whittleseys

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Sequence occupancy

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Is the process by which a characteristic spreads

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Diffusion

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The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process.

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Expansion diffusion

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A form of diffusion in which and idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. An urban hierarchy is usually involved, encouraging the leapfrogging of innovations over wide areas. with geographic distance a less important influence.

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Hierarchical diffusion

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The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or some other item through a local population by contact from person to person- Analogous to the communication of a contagious illness.

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Contagious diffusion

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A form of diffusion in which a cultural adaptation is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place.

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Stimulus diffusion

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

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Innovation adoption

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Diffusion of a process with negative side effects or what works well in one region may not in another.

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Maladaptive diffusion

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The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin.

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Distance decay

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Explains how quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are through transportation and communication technologies. A term associated with the work of David Harvey

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Time- Space Compression

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The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes

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Glocalization

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What happens at the global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale-world is comprised of an interconnected series of relationships that extend across space.

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Global-local continuum

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A repetitive act performed by a particular individual

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Habit

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The area where an idea or cultural trait originates

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Hearth

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The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world

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Neolocalism

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The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape

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Sequent occupance

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Geographer from the University of California at Bed defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental un graphical analysis. this landscape results from interaction between and the physical environment. Sauer argued that virtually no land escaped alteration by human activities

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Carl Sauer

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Model showing that the farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two groups are to interact. Contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears.

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Distance decay model

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The process through which something is given monetary value; occurs when a good or idea that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that can be traded in a market economy.

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Commodification

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The social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across the generations. The process of learning the beliefs. attitudes and behaviors of a group

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Enculturation

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An area in which a group of people share a similar culture and language

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Cultural region

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A distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person

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Trait

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Interconnected culture complexes that share language, ethnicity. religion, etc

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Cultural system

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A group of culture traits all interrelated and dominated by one essential trait

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Cultural complex

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Mother, father and children living as a unit

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Nuclear family

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A family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives

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Extended family

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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custon

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Taboo

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situation in which some aspects of the culture change less rapidly, or lag behind, other aspects of the same culture

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Cultural lag

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Invention of the same phenomenon by two culture hearths without each knowing about the other's invention or, sometimes, existence

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Independent Innovation/Invention

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A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the United States and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions

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Multiculturalism

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The practice of judging a culture by its own standards

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Cultural Relativism

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Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group

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Ethnocentrism

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A blend of two or more cultures or cultural traditions

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Sycretism