Ap Human Geography Chapter 4

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Steven Anderson assimilation

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The process through which people lose originally differentiating the traits such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another Society or culture. Often used to describe immigrant adaptation to new places of residence.

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Authenticity Steven Anderson

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In the context of local cultures or Customs, the accuracy with which the single stereotypical or Typecast image or experience conveys and otherwise Dynamic and complex local culture or its customs

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Commodification Steven anderson

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

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Cultural appropriation Steven Anderson

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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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Cultural landscape Steven Anderson

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The visible impact of human activity and culture on the landscape. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts sequentially imprinted on the landscape by the activities of various human occupants.

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Culture Steven Anderson

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The sum total all of the knowledge, attitudes, and the habitual Behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of society. This is anthropologist Ralph Linton definition hundreds of others exist.

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Custom Steven Anderson

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Practice routinely followed by a group of people

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Distance Decay Steven Anderson

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The effects of a distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction

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Ethnic neighborhood Steven Anderson

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Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger Metropolitan City and constructed by a composed of local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs

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Folk culture Steven

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Cultural trait such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities.

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Global local continuum Steven Anderson

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The notion that what happens at the global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vice versa. This idea posits that the world is compromised of an interconnected series of relationships that extend across space.

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Glocalization Steven Anderson

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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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Hearth Steven Anderson

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The area where an idea or cultural trait originates.

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Hierarchical diffusion Steven Anderson

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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. An urban hierarchy is usually involved, encouraging the leapfrogging of Innovations over wide areas, with Geographic distance a less important influence.

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Local culture Steven Anderson

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Group of people in particular place who see themselves as a collective / Community, sharing and preserving experiences, customs, and traits to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others.

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Material culture Steven Anderson

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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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Neolocalism Steven Anderson

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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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Non-material Culture Steven Anderson

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

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Placelessness Steven Anderson

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Define by geographer relph as a loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural lanmdscape so that one place looks like the next

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Popular culture Steven

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

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Reterritorialization Steven Anderson

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With respect to popular culture, 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 the local culture and making it their own.