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AP Human Ch. 4 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Culture | Group of belief 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, share experiences, customs, and traits, and work to preserve their traits and customs in a place |
Material Culture | Physical aspects of culture, including art, tools, buildings, and clothing that are made by people |
No material 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 a hierarchy of connectedness. Specific type of expansion diffusion |
Hearth | Area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology originates |
Customs | Common practice or routine way of doing things in 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 Culture | Belief systems and philosophies practiced and traditionally passed from generation to generation among peoples within an indigenous tribe or group |
Context | The physical and human geographies creating the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act |
Neolocalism | Conscious effort to define a sense of place for local or regional culture. Often used by local businesses, such as microbreweries, to identify local products with local or regional culture |
Ethnic Neighborhoods | identity shared by a group of people who have a common culture, generally based on cultural traits (religion, language), national origin, or race |
Gentrification | Renewal or rebuilding of a lower income neighborhood into a middle- to upper-class neighborhood, which results in driving 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 goods 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 communication and transportation networks |
Music Festival | Concert event featuring multiple performers and additional entertainment that often lasts more than one day |
Hallyu | 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 or innovation from its hearth by the act of people moving and taking the idea or innovation with them |
Cultural Landscape | The 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 | The layout of a city, including the sizes and shapes of buildings and the pathways of infrastructure |