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evolutionism

is the idea that cultural change occurs from within the culture itself as when a group invents a new word or tool or finds ways to adapt to changes in its surroundings


diffusionism

by contrast emphasizes how various aspects of cultures such as words or tools spread out from their places of origin and are adopted by other peoples

cultural diffusion

the process of spreading

acculturation

the process of adopting some aspect of another culture

hunter gatherers

humankind that derived its food from thins that people hunted or harvested naturally

pastoral nomad-ism

domesticated animals and moved

historical materialism

the arc of human history as a sequence o stages

environmental determinism

the simplistic belief that human cultures or behaviors can be explained entirely as the result of he effects of the physical environment

cultural ecology

the study of the ways societies adapt to environment by contract

possibilism

insists that the physical environment itself will neither suggest nor determine what people will attempt but it may limit what people can profitably achieve

artifacts

objects used by a culture

folk culture

a culture that preserves traditions

heritage sites

seek to preserve and commemorate dead or dying folk cultures and often become major tourist attractions

popular culture

is the culture of people who embrace innovation and conform to changing norms

identity

one meaning refers to a persons individual identity, or the characteristic of a social group you belong to

spatial identitiies

how certain identities attach to particular places or regions

subculture

a group that shares a smaller bundle of attributes with a larger more diverse society

ethnic group

used to describe a cultural or sub cultural group

ethnonationalism

is the claim that a particular culture group has special political rights over other groups

ethnic enclaves

urban and increasingly suburban neighborhoods with a high concentration of a particular ethnic group

ehtnocentrism

the tendency to judge other cultures by the standards and practices of ones own and usually to judge them unfavorably

races

biological characteristics to divide hmanking

racism

the belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another

gender roles

duties and behaviors associated with being a man or a woman

sexuality

sexual orientation and behavior

behavioral geography

is a sub field of cultural geography that studies our perception of the world around us and of how our perception influences our behavior

mental maps

pictures in our heads

cognitive behaviorailsm

people react to their environment as they perceive it

proxemics

the cross cultural study of the use of space

territoriality

claim of space and defend it

culture region or are

continuous presence of one or a set of cultural traits

culture core are

regions based on popular culture like baseball fans

culture domain

the rest of the area would be called this

culture realm

in which there is some support for the red sox but it is less than for other teams

inertia

for the force that keeps things stable

infrastructure

fixed assets in place like towns houses roads utilities and more

historical geography

sub field within geography that studies the geography of the past and how geographic distributions have changed

historical consicousness

knowing your ancestors and what they went through

cultural imperialsim

which is the substitution or subordination of one set of cultural traditions by another either by force or by degrading those who fail to acculturate and rewarding those who do

time space compression

meaning as connections among far away places become faster the friction of distance between them lessens

mass media

books recorded music and movies

electronic networks

internet, which conveys info almost instantly across the globe for exmple

cyberspce

the extension of reality through global electronic means of communication

digital diveide

no new technology for poor people

localization

larger content providers are doing more to translate their content into other languages

cultural preservation

is the effort to document re-popularize and rejuvenate traditional cultures

hybridity

the idea that cultures can be combined

commodification

risks ruining traditional practices and objects with great significance into superficial products to be consumed by people with little understand of their meaning