Ap Human Geography De Blij Chap. 4

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Culture

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A group of belief systems, values, and norms practiced by a group of people

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Folk Culture

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A culture with a small, homogenous population and cohesive traits found in rural areas

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Popular Culture

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A culture with a large, heterogenous population found in urban areas with changing traits

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Local culture

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A culture formed within a local area when a group of people see themselves as collective

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Material culture

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Items constructed or created by a group of people

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Nonmaterial culture

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Beliefs, practices, and aesthetics of a group of people

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Hierarchical diffusion

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When an idea spreads from a group of high ranking to a group of low ranking

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Hearth

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Point of origin

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Assimilation

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The process in which a group of people lose their originality and adapt a different culture

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Custom

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A practice that a group of people routinely follow

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Cultural appropriation

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The act of one culture adopting different customs

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Neolocalism

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Reinvigorating regional culture because of the uncertainty of the modern world

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Ethnic neighborhood

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An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background; A way to maintain distinct cultural environment

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Commodification

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The process in which something is given monetary value, occurs when something that was not regarded to be bought or sold is given a price and bought and sold

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Authenticity

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(follows commodification) expresses what buyer desires

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Distance decay

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The further away something is, the less likely you are to interact with it

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Time- space compression

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The social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has reached a high level of intensity

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Reterritorialization

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Aspect of popular culture that changes between localities

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Cultural landscape

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Visible imprint of human activity on the landscape

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Placelessness

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The loss of uniqueness of a place; homogenization

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Global-local continuum

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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

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Glocalization

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

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Polarization

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Backlash to homogenizing culture; trying to make a place unique