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Chapter 4
Term | Definition |
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Culture | group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people. |
Folk culture | small, incorporates a homogenous population, is typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits that are passed down from generation to generation. |
Popular culture | large, incorporates heterogeneous populations, is typically urban, and quickly changes cultural traits. |
Local culture | group of people in a certain place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences and traits, and who work to preserve distinct customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others. |
Material culture | things people construct, such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance and foods. |
Nonmaterial culture | beliefs, practices, aesthetic (what is seen as attractive), and values. |
Hierarchical diffusion | spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on a hierarchy of connectedness. Specific type of expansion diffusion. |
Hearth | area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates |
Customs | practices that a group of people routinely follow. |
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 as indigenous, or original, to a place. |
Context | physical and human geographies creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act. |
Neolocalism | seeking out the regional culture and reinvigorating it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world. |
Ethnic neighborhoods | area within a urban area where a relatively large group of people from one ethnic group or local culture lives. |
Gentrification | renewal or rebuilding of a lower-income neighborhood. |
Cultural appropriation | process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit. |
Commodification | transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded. |
Authenticity | 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 communication and transportation networks. |
Music festival | concert event featuring multiple performers and additional entertainment that often lasts more than one day. |
Hallyu (Hanryu) | waves of South Korean popular culture that move quickly through Asia and that have resulted in significant growth in the South Korean entertainment and tourism industries. |
Reterritorialization | when a local culture shapes an aspect of popular culture as their own, adopting the popular culture to their local culture. |
Stimulus diffusion | process of diffusion where two cultural traits blend to create a distinct trait. |
Relocation diffusion | spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them. |
Cultural landscape | visible human imprint on the landscape. |
Placelessness | loss of uniqueness of a location so that one place looks like the next. |
Convergence of cultural landscapes | merging of cultural landscapes that happens with broad diffusion of landscape traits. |
Urban morphology | layout of a city, including the sizes and shapes of buildings and the pathways of infrastructure. |