Ap Human Geography Vocab Words In Ch.4

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culture

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the sum total of the knowledge,attitudes and habitual behavioral patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. This is anthropologist's Ralph Linton's definition, hundreds of others exist

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folk culture

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Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, 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 part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced urban 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 community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work 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, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people

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NNonmaterial Culture

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

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Hierarchal 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 people. 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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hearth

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The area which an idea or culture trait originates

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Assimilation

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

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Custom

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Practice routinely followed by a group of people

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Culture Appropriation

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

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neolocation

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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 metropolis 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 good or idea that previously was not
regarded as an object to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular place and that is to be traded in a market economy

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Authenticity

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In the context of local cultures of customs, accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex or its customs

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distance decay

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

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Time-Space Compression

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A term associated with the work of David Haram that refers to the social and physiological effect of living in a world which the time space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity

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Reterritorialization

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

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Cultural Landscape

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

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placelessness

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defined by Edward Ralph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next