Unit 3 Flashcards
(108 cards)
habit
Habit: A repetitive act that a particular individual performs.
Custom
Custom: A repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group.
Culture
Culture: A particular group’s material characteristics, behavioral patterns, beliefs, social norms, and attitudes that are shared and transmitted
Culture Trait
Culture Trait: The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture.
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Material Aspects of Culture
Material Aspects of Culture: Anything that can physically be seen on the landscape connecting to culture.
Non material aspects of culture
Non-Material Aspects of Culture: Anything on the landscape that comprises culture that cannot be physically touched.
Artifacts
Artifacts: An object made by human beings; often refers to a primitive tool or another relic from an earlier period
Mentifacts
Mentifacts: Represents the ideas and beliefs of a culture.
Sociofacts
Sociofacts: The institutions and links between individuals and groups that unit a culture, including family structure and political, educational, and religious institutions
Cultural Landscape/Built Environment
Cultural Landscape/Built Environment: The part of the physical landscape that represents material culture; the buildings, roads, bridges, and similar structures large and small of the cultural landscape. The tangible human creation on the landscape.
Sequent Occupance
Sequent Occupance: The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
Folk Culture (Homogenous)
Folk Culture: (Homogeneous): Culture traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas.
Popular Culture (heterogeneous)
Popular Culture: (Heterogeneous): Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other characteristics.
Globalization
Globalization: Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
Glocalization
Glocalization: The process in which human culture, such as businesses or language, or recipes, spreads internationally while also reinforcing certain local cultures.
Placelessness
Placelessness: the loss of uniqueness of a place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the rest
Postmodern Archietcture
Postmodern Architecture: Tries to design buildings that are visually pleasing to human beings and provide modern humans with a link to their past.
Traditional Architecture
Traditional Architecture: Traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places.
Relocation Diffusion
Relocation Diffusion: The spread of a feature or trend through the bodily movement of people from one place to another
Expansion Diffusion
Expansion Diffusion: The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process.
Hierarchical Diffusion
Hierarchical Diffusion: The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or a node of authority or power to other persons or places.
Stimulus Diffusion
Stimulus Diffusion: The spread of an underlying principle or belief
Contagious Diffusion
Contagious diffusion: The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population.
Folk Religionists
Folk Religionists: faiths that are closely associated with a particular group of people, ethnicity, or tribe.