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Chapter 4 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Culture | Group of beliefs systems, norms, and values practiced by a people |
| Folk culture | Small ,homogenous population that is typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits that are passed down from generation to generation |
| Popular culture | Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced, global society |
| Local culture | People who see themselves as a collective or a community, shares experiences, customs, and traits and work to preserve their traits and customs |
| Material culture | Physical aspects of culture, including art, tools, buildings, and clothing that are made by people |
| Nonmaterial culture | Non physical aspects of culture, including beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values that are defined by people |
| Hierarchical diffusion | Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on hierarchy f connectedness. Specific type of expansion diffusion |
| Hearth | Area of place when an idea, innovation, or technology originates from. The origin. |
| Customs | Common practice or routine way of doing things and a culture |
| Assimilation | When a minority group loses distinct cultural traits, such as dress, food, or speech, and adopts the customs of the dominant culture. Can happen voluntarily or by force. |
| Indigenous local cultures | People who see themselves as a community and also identify ad indigenous, or original, to a place |
| Context | The physical and human geographies creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act |
| Neolocalism | Economic and financial policies that give higher income countries and organization control over lower income countries |
| Ethnic neighborhoods | Area within an urban area where a relatively large group of people from one ethnic group or local culture lives |
| Gentrification | Renewal and rebuilding of a lower income neighborhood into a middle-to upper-upper class neighborhood, which results in dividing up property values and rents and the dispossession of lower income residents |
| Cultural appropriation | When one culture adopts customs and knowledge from another culture and uses them for its own benefit |
| Commodification | Transformation of good and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded |
| Authenticity | The idea that one place or experience is the true, actual one |
| Distance decay | Decreasing likelihood of diffusion with greater distance from the hearth |
| Time-space compression | Increasing connectedness between world cities from improved and transportation networks |
| Music festival | Concert event featuring multiple performers and additional entertainment that often lasts more than one day |
| Hallyu (Hanryu) | South Korean waves of popular culture, especially in music, television, and movies |
| Reterritorialization | When a local culture shapes an aspect of popular culture as their own, adopting the popular culture to their local culture |
| Stimulus diffusion | A process of diffusion where two cultural traits blend to create a distinct trait |
| Relocation diffusion | Spread of an idea and innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea and innovation |
| Cultural landscape | The visible human imprint on the landscape |
| Placelessness | Loss of uniqueness of a location so that one place look like the next |
| Convergence of cultural landscapes | Merging of cultural landscapes that happens with broad diffusion of landscape traits |
| Urban morphology | The layout of a city, including the sizes and shapes of buildings and that pathways of infrastructure |
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