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GEOG 1101 Chp. 5
key terms
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Cultural complex | combination of traits characteristic of a particular group. |
Cultural geography | how space, place, & landscape shape culture at the same time that culture shapes space, place, & landscape. |
Cultural hearths | the geographic origins or sources of innovations, ideas, or ideologies. |
Cultural landscape | a characteristic & tangible outcome of the complex interactions between a human group & a natural environment. |
Cultural region | the areas within which a particular cultural system prevails. |
Cultural system | a collection of interacting elements that taken together shape a group’s collective identity. |
Cultural trait | a single aspect of the complex of routine practices that constitute a particular cultural group. |
Culture | a shared set of meanings that are lived through the material & symbolic practices of everyday life. |
Ethnicity | a socially created system of rules about who belongs & who does not belong to a particular group based upon actual or perceived commonality. |
Folk culture | traditional practices of small groups, especially rural people with a simple lifestyle who are seen to be homogeneous in their belief systems & practices. |
Gender | the social differences between men & women rather than the anatomical differences that are related to sex. |
Language | a means of communicating ideas or feelings by means of a conventionalized system of signs, gestures, marks, or articulate vocal sounds. |
Race | a problematic classification of human beings based on skin color & other physical characteristics. |
Racialization | the practice of categorizing people according to race, or of imposing a racial character or context. |
Religion | a belief system & set of practices that recognize the existence of a power higher than humans. |