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
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