Vocab Chapter 4&6 Flashcards
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Cultural Ecology
Refers to the type of landscapes by the interaction of people and their physical environment
Commodification
The process in which cultural attributions are changed into a mass marketing product.
Cultural Landscape
Can be both as history and narrative
Culture
Some of the cultures studied are language and religion
Folk culture
Local, small and tightly bound to the immediate
Formal region
Characterized by homogeneity or uniformity in one or a number of different characteristics
Functional region
An area that contains node or focal points to which other places are connected by some activity
Globalization
The set of forces and processes that involve the entire planet, making something worldwide in scope
Heterogeneous
Dissimilar people in a population
Homogenous
Similar people in a population
Material Culture
All the physical things that people create and attach meaning to.
Perceptional Region
Feelings and prejudices that may or may not be true
Placelessness
The irrelevance of a place
Popular Culture
Large, dispersed and globalizing
Resistance
Fear of losing cultural identity; forms of resistance can include protest and grass root movement
Agnostic
Refers to the idea that existence of a higher power is most likely unknown
Atheistic
In many places that officials have no religions, people do not let their beliefs be known to others
Canonized Doctrine
The main difference between branches
Ethnic Religions
They have made little to no effort trying to convert people
Monotheism
The belief that there is only one god
Polytheism
The beliefs that there are many god
Fundamentalism
a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
Schism
The Protestant/Catholic schism begin in the sixteenth century
Secular
they re much more common in the developed world then the undeveloped world.
