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Vocab Chapters 4-5 Flashcards

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Identity

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How we make sense of ourselves

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Gender

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Social differences between men and woman, rather than the biological differences between the sexes. Gender differences vary greatly over time and space.

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Identifying Against

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First defining “the other” then defining ourselves as “not that”.

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Race

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A categorization of humans based on physical characteristics. Race categories are social and political constructs.

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Racism

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An ideology that ascribes significance and meaning to physical features.

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Residential Segrigation

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The degree to which two or more groups live separately from each other.

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Succession

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The process by which new immigrants to a city move into and take over neighborhoods previously dominated by other immigrants.

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Sense of Place

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Assigning meaning to a place because of some event that had happened there

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Ethnicity

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Affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture.

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Place

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Uniqueness of a location

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Space

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Social relations stretched out

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Gendered

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Whether a place is designed for or claimed by men or woman.

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Queer Theory

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The contextual nature of oppression to the heteronormative focuses on the political engagement of “queers” with the heteronormative.

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GEM

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The gender empowerment measure is the measure by which woman have access to political and economic decision making.

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Dowry Deaths

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When woman are killed because their dowry wasn’t enough in the opinion of the husband’s family.

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Barrioization

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The increase of Hispanic population in any neighborhood.

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Cultural Landscape

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The imprint of human activity on an environment.

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Sequent Occupanece

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The notion that successive societies leave their imprint on places, each contributing to the cultural landscape.

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Culture Complex

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A relaxed set of cultural traits, like how people eat or dress.

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Cultural Hearth

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The source of a culture.

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Independent Invention

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A trait many cultures developed away from each other

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Carl Sauer

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The father of diffusion

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Culture Trait

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A single element that a culture normally practices.

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Time-Distance Decay

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The declining degree of acceptance of an idea with increasing time and distance from its source

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Cultural Barriers
A prevailing cultural attitude that renders certain ideas, innovations, or practices unacceptable or unadoptable
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Expansion Diffusion
The spread of an innovation or idea in a way that the number of those influences grows continuously larger.
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Contagious Diffusion
The controlled spreading of an idea or innovation through a population by person to person contact
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Hierarchal Diffusion
An idea or innovation first passes through the most connected places, then to less connected places
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Stimulus Diffusion
A cultural adaption is created by the introduction of another cultural trait being introduced
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Relocation Diffusion
Process by which ideas or innovations are transmitted to other places by their carriers as they move to some other place
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Culture
The total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
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Folk Culture
Culture traits shared by a small, traditional community
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Popular Culture
Cultural traits shared by the mass media that are as ever changing as society is today
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Local culture
A group of people who see themselves as a community who share traits and will work to perverse those traits to preserve the uniqueness of a community
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Material Culture
The physical things associated with a culture
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Non Material Culture
The metaphysical things attached to a certain culture
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Hearth
The area where a culture or idea originates
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Assimlilation
The process by which people lose previously defining cultural traits
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Custom
A practice routinely followed by a particular culture
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Cultural Appropriation
The proses by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them to their own benefit
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Neolocalism
The seeking out of the local culture and reinvigorating it as a response to the uncertainty if the modern world
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Ethnic Neighborhood
A neighborhood almost exclusively dominated by one particular culture, usually in metropolitan areas
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Commodification
The proses by which something that didn't have monetary value is given monetary value
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Authenticity
The accuracy of a particular stereotype
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Distance Decay
The effect of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the lesser the interaction
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Time-space compression
The Social/psychological effects on people from living in a fast-paced society.
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Reterritorialization
When people in a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture and make it their own
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Placelessness
The loss of the uniqueness of a place, meaning one place looks like the next
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Global-local continuum
The notion that what happens at the local scale has a direct effect on what happens at a global scale and vice versa
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Glocalization
The proses by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global issues.
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Folk-housing Regions
A region in which the housing style is directly linked to the culture of those who live there.
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Hutterites
A culture of Anabaptists who are similar to the Amish, but differ in beliefs.
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Makah American Indians
A Native American society that hunted whales as a part of their culture
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Little Sweden
A town in Kansas that celebrates Swedish holidays and is of Swedish decent.
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Cultural geography
The transformation of the land and the way humans interact with their environment
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Cultural ecology
The relationships and interactions between a culture and their environment
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Environmental Determinism
The view that the environment has a direct effect on the culture of those who live there
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Possibilism
The view that human decision making has more of an effect on culture than the environment.
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Environmental perception
Emphasizes the importance of human perception on the environment
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Cultural determinism
Emphasizes human culture as more important than the environment in shaping human actions
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Culture region
An area marked by a culture that distinguishes it from other places
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Acculturation
The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding cultures
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Assimilation
The proses by which people lose originally differentiating traits
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Transculturation
An equal exchange of cultural traits
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Ethnocentrisim
Judging another culture through the lens of another, without taking the other culture into consideration
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Cultural Relitivism
Evaluating a culture by its own standards
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Syncretism
The proses of the fusion of the old and new
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Housing styles
A relaction to the different environments different cultures were exposed to
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Regional identity
Part of an identity is rooted in the region one lives in
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Enculturation
The gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of another culture by a person, another culture, etc.
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Mores
Refers to norms more widely observed than others
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Norm
Something that is usual, typical, or standard in a culture

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