Ap Human Geography Chapter 4 Vocab Flashcard
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assimilation
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The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture.
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authenticity
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in the context of local cultures or customs, the accuracy with a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture.
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commodification
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The process through which something is given monetary value.
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cultural appropriation
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The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit
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cultural landscape
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The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.
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culture
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The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
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custom
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Practice routinely followed by a group of people
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diffusion routes
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The spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spread
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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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ethnic neighborhoods
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Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs
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folk culture
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Cultural traits such as clothings, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities
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folk-housing regions
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A region in which the housing stock predominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area
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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 mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes
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hearth
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The area where an idea or cultural trait originates
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hierarchical 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 peoples.
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local culture
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Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits.
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material culture
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The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people
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neolocalism
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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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nonmaterial culture
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The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people
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placelessness
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Defined by geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next
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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 western societies
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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 popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture
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time-space compression
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A term associated with the work of David Harvey that refers to the social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity
