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Chapter 4 Vocabulary
Words and definitions for the 29 vocabulary words in Chapter 4.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Culture | Group of beliefs, norms, and values practiced by a group of people. |
| Folk Culture | Small, homogenous population that is usually rural and retains 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 urban society. Changes very frequently. |
| Material Culture | Physical aspects of culture; art, tools, buildings, and clothing that are made by a specific group of people. |
| Nonmaterial Culture | Non-physical aspects of culture; beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values that are defined by a specific group of people. |
| Hierarchical Diffusion | Spread of an idea or innovation from one person or place to another person or place based on the hierarchy of connectedness. Specific type of expansion diffusion. |
| Hearth | Area or place where an idea, innovation, or technology comes from. |
| Customs | Common practices or routine ways of doing things within a culture. |
| Assimilation | When a minority group loses their distinct cultural traits, such as dress, food, or speech, and adopts the customs of a more 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 | The physical and human geography which creates the place, environment, and space in which events occur and people act. |
| Neolocalism | A conscious effort to define a sense of place for local or regional culture. |
| Ethnic Neighborhoods | A space within an 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 into a middle- to upper-class neighborhood. This causes an increase in property values and rents and the dispossession of lower income residents. |
| Authenticity | The idea that one place or experience is the true, actual one. |
| Distance Decay | Decreasing likelihood of diffusion within a greater distance from the hearth. |
| Time-space Compression | Increasing connectedness between world cities from improved communication and transportation networks. |
| Music Festival | A concert event featuring multiple performers and additional entertainment which often lasts more than one day. |
| Hallyu (Hanryu) | The South Korean waves of popular culture, especially in music, television, and movies. |
| Reterritorialization | When a local culture takes an aspect of popular culture and makes their own trait out of it. |
| Stimulus Diffusion | A form 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 left 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; the sizes and shapes of buildings and the pathways of infrastructure. |
Created by:
Lucas Booher
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