AP Human Chapter 4 flashcards
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| Acculturation |
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| cultural change at intersection of 2 different cultures |
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| adaptive strategies |
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| how communities respond to environmental stress |
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| architectural form |
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| the look of housing based on available materials and culture |
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| artifact |
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| the material objects of a culture, such as tools and houses |
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| assimilation |
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| the act of completely emerging into a new culture |
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| built environment |
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| the part of a landscape manipulated by a cultures artifacts, such as roads and houses |
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| core-domain-sphere model |
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| Area where the concentration of cultural traits of a region or realm is greatest |
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| cultural divergence |
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| the idea that separated cultures continue to be less similar with time |
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| cultural ecology |
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| the study of human-environment relations |
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| cultural identity |
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| someone’s belief that they are part of a certain culture or clique |
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| cultural integration |
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| the relationship of different objects in a culture |
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| cultural landscape |
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| the imprint of a culture on a landscape |
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| Culture Region |
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| an area where many people have similar cultural traits |
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| cultural convergence |
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| The tendency of cultures to become more and more similar as a result of more advanced technology, communications, and transportation |
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| cultural realm |
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| Collective of culture regions that share similar culture, set apart from other cultural realms by distinctive trait differences |
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| culture region |
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| Formal or functional region with common cultural characteristics |
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| culture hearth |
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| Area where a culture originates |
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| culture complex |
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| A set of related cultural traits or practices shared between people of the same culture region or cultural realm |
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| culture trait |
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| One distinguishing factor of a culture that sets the culture aside from other cultures |
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| custom |
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| Repetition of an act that becomes so frequent it becomes associated with the group of people doing it |
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| environmental determinism |
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| A theory which states that the environment can control humans |
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| ethnocentrism |
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| the judgement of a culture based on one’s own |
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| exclave |
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| Part of a country geographically separated from the rest of the country, surrounded by foreign territory |
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| enclave |
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| Part of a country surrounded by the territory of another country |
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| folk culture |
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| Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. |
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| folklore |
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| Unwritten lore (such as stories, proverbs, or songs) of a folk culture |
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| food attraction |
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| choices of food towards which certain people are inclined |
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| habit |
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| something that one person does over and over again |
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| innovation adoption |
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| study of how why and at what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture |
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| material culture |
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| culture that is palpable |
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| mentifacts |
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| objects left by a culture that are impalpable |
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| non-material culture |
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| culture that is impalpable |
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| popular culture |
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| Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. |
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| possibilism |
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| theory that the environment partially shapes humans |
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| racism |
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| The slander of people based on their race |
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| sequence occupancy |
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| when a culture inhabits an area, they leave a permanent mark there |
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| taboo |
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| Something that is banned or thought poorly of by a society |
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| traditional architecture |
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| Unique building style of a religion, culture, or other place |
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| uniform landscape |
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| when a certain place (such as a restaurant) is the same in one place and another |
