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Ch 4 Culture
Term | Definition |
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cultural landscape | Modifications to the enviorment by humans, including the built enviorment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects if thier culture |
Culture | The shared understandings that guide behavior and values and condition a group's perception of the world. Is learned from one generation to the net and evolves over time. |
Culture region | a region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features. |
Culture trait | A defining characteristic of the culture that is shared by most, if not all, members |
artifact | object made by human beings |
folk culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. |
popular culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. |
custom | a repetitive act of a group performed to the extent that it becomes a characteristic |
habit | a repetitive act that a particular individual performs |
taboo | a restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom |
uniform landscape | the spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another |
cultural landscape | a landscape that has been changed by human beings and that reflects their culture |
culture realm | a cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail |
culture hearth | a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward |
material culture | The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture |
accultration | modifying cultural traits to conform to dominant culture |
assimilation | adopting dominant culture |
multicultralism | many cultures |
globalization | spread world wide |
terroir | contribution of envionment to taste of food |