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Unit 4 APHG
cultural geography
| Question | Answer | examples |
|---|---|---|
| gender | social differences between men and women | women in other cultures not allowed rights ofmen |
| identity | "how we make sense of ourselves" | |
| identifying against | constructing an identity by first defining the "other" and then defining ourselves as not "the other" | Europeans declaring themselves civilized (verses savages and mystical) |
| race | a categorization of human based on skin color and other physical characteristics | segregation against blacks |
| racism | a system or attitude toward visible differences in individuals that ascribes (predominantly negative) significance and culturally, politically, and socially constructed ideas based on phenotypical features | against |
| residential segregation | the degree which two or more groups live seperately from one another | isreal, palestine |
| invasion and succession | process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate (take over) areas | Hispanics moving in New York neighborhoods |
| sense of place | state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering past events | home |
| ethnicity | affililiation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture | Japanese |
| space | social relations stretched out (defined by Doreen Massey and Pat Jesse) | moving across country from family |
| place | fourth theme of geography (uniqueness of location) | |
| gendered | whether the place is designed for men or women | clothes stores for men or women |
| queer theory | (defined by Glen Elder, Lawrence Knopp, and Heidi Nast) the contextual nature of oppositeion to the heteronormative and focuses on the political engagement of "queers" with the heteronormative | 2012 election |
| dowry deaths | disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom | in india |
| barrionization | (defined by James Curtis) the dramatic increase in Hispanic population | such as New York |
| acculturation | the adoptation of cultural traits, such as language,by one group under the influence of another | African states w European traits because of colonization |
| culture | total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior pattern shared by members of a society | there is a culture of "mail order" brides |
| folk culture | cultural traits of usually small traditional cultures | |
| popular culture | cultural traits that identify and are part of changeable urban based western societies | |
| local culture | a group of people who see themselves as a close community (share experiences cultures and try to preserve them) | |
| material culture | physical aspects of culture | architecture or clothing |
| nonmaterial culture | beliefs practices aesthics and values of a group of people | religion |
| hierarchical diffusion | diffusion that spreads first by going to the most connected places | |
| hearth | the area a cultural trait originated | were a religion first came to be (common) |
| assimilate | the process by which people lose originally differentiating traits | losing things such as dress speech particularities or mannerism |
| custom | practice routinely followed by a group of people | bowing to elders at new years (for us) |
| cultural appropriation | the process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures for their own benefit | Chinese making Korean resturant |
| neolocalism | seeking out of regional culture and reinvigorating of it in uncertainty in modern world | |
| ethnic neighborhood | a smaller neighborhood in a large metropolitan city | china town |
| commodification | the process through which something is given monetary value | selling celebrity's stuff |
| authenticity | the accuracy which a single stereotype image or experience conveys an otherwise an otherwise complex culture or custom | Lost city resort in Africa |
| distance decay | The effects of distance on interaction (greater distance, less communication) | Do not see Canadian relatives so much as the ones that live nearby and see Hawaiian ones even less |
| time-space compression | refers to social physiological effects of living in world which t-s convergence has reached high | |
| reterritorialization | when people in place start to produce aspect of pop culture themselves | |
| cultural landscape | Visible imprints of human activity on the landscape | Driving on the road and seeing restraints and adds |
| placelessness | loss of uniqueness of place in cultural landscape so they all seem same | all streets seem to have fast food |
| global-local continuum | notion that what happens at the global scale has direct effect on local and vice versa | |
| folk-housing regions | A region which the housing is of a particular style | |
| diffusion routes | Spatial trajectory through through which cultural traits and other phenomena move | Silk road and trade |
| glocalization | the process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes |
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