Ap Huge Unit 3 Pt. 1

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Culture

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The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.

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Folk Culture

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Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, customs, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities.

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Popular Culture

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Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are a part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced western societies.

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Local Culture

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Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who wrk to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others

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Material Culture

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The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people.

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Nonmaterial Culture

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The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.

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Hierarchical Diffusion

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A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples.

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Hearth

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The area where an idea or cultural trait originates.

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Assimilation

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The process through which people lose orginally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture.

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Cultural Appropriation

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The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit.

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Custom

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Practice routinely followed by a group of people.

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Neolocalism

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The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world.

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Ethnic Neighborhood

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Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitain city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs.

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Commodification

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The process through which something is given monetary value. Occurs when a when a good or idea that was previously not regarded as an item to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that can be traded in a market economy.

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Authenticity

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The accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs.

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Distance Decay

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The effects of distance interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction.

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Time-space Compression

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A term that refers to the feeling that places are more connected as a result of technology that lessens the time needed for movement or communication across space.

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Reterritiorialization

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With respect to popular culture, when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own.

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Placelessness

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Defined by the geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.

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Cultural Landscape

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The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.

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Global-local Continuum

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The notion that what happens at a global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vice versa.

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Glocalization

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The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes.

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Folk-housing Region

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A region in which the housing stock prodominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area.

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Diffusion Routes

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The spacial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spreads.

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gender

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ocial differences between men and women, rather than the anatomical, biological differences between the sexes.

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race

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a categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics.

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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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dowry deaths

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in the context of arranged marriages in India, 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 a bride