Human Geography Chapter 5 (Fouberg)

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Acculturation

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(n.) the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend

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Barrioization

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the dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood; referring the barrio, the Spanish word for neighborhood

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Creolization

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The blending of African, European, and some Amerindian cultural elements into the unique sociocultural systems found in the Caribbean

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Dowry Deaths

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disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom (the dowry) have, in some extreme cases, led to the death of the bride

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Ethnic Culture

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Culture that is unique for a group of people based on a common place of origin, beliefs, values and traditions over time.

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Ethnicity

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Affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture.

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Ethnocentrism

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Belief in the superiority of one’s nation or ethnic group.

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Gender

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a culture’s assumptions about the differences between men and women: their “characters,” the roles they play in society, what they represent

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Gendered

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In terms of a place, whether the place is designed for or claimed by men or women

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Identifying Against

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we first define the “other” and then we define ourselves as “not the other”

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Identity

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Defined by geographer Gillian Rose as “how we make sense of ourselves;” how people see themselves at different scales.

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Multiculturalism

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A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the United States and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions

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Place

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particular articulations of those social relations as they have come together, over time, in the particular location; uniqueness of a location

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Queer Theory

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highlights the contextual nature of opposition to the heteronormative and focuses on the political engagement of queers with the heteronormative

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Race

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a constructed identity and a perfect example of how identities are built; a categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics

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Racism

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Frequently referred to as a system or attitude toward visible differences in individuals, it is an ideology of difference that ascribes (predominantly negative) significance and meaning to culturally, socially, and politically constructed ideas based on phenotypical features.

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Residential Segregation

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Defined by geographers Douglas Massey and Nancy Dentonas, the degree to which two or more groups live separately from on another, in different parts of an urban environment

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Sense of Place

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State of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering important events that occurred in the place or by labeling a place with certain character.

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Space

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social relations stretched out

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Succession

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Process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighborhood and occupied by older immigrant groups. For example, in the early twentieth century, Puerto Ricans “invaded” the immigrant Jewish neighborhood of East Harlem and successfully took over the neighborhood or “succeeded” the immigrant Jewish population as the dominant immigrant group in the neighborhood.