AP Human Geography Concepts of Culture Vocab – Flashcards
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Acculturation
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culture modification resulting from intercultural borrowing. In cultural geography and anthropology, the term is often used to designate the change that occurs in the culture of a less technologically advanced people when contact is made with a society that is more technologically advanced.
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Assimilation
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the process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, when they come in contact with another society or culture.
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Culture diffusion
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the process of spreading and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin across a wider area.
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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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cultural realm
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a cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail.
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cultural region
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A region within which a common cultural characteristics prevail
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Cultural landscape
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Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group
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formal
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an area in which everyone shares in one or more distinctive characteristics
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functional
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an area organized around a node
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vernacular
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an area that people believe to exist as part of their cultural identity
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expansion diffusion
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the spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing effect
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hierarchical diffusion
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the spread of a feature to trend from one key person or node of authority
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contagious diffusion
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the rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population
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stimulus diffusion
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the spread of an underlying priciple, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
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relocation diffusion
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the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people
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sequent occupance
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the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place each contributing to the cumlative cultural landscape
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chain migration
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migration of people to a specific location because relative or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
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space convergence
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refers to the accelerated movement of goods, information and ideas during the 20th century made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communication
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creole
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a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
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dialect
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a regional variety of a language distinguished by vocab, spelling, and prounciation
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isoglass
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a boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate
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language
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a system of communication through the use of speech
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language family
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a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor
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language group
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a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past
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lingua franca
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a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.
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pidgin language
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a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocab of a lingua franca
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toponymy
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the name given to a portion of the earth's surface
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animism
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belief that objects, such as plants and stones have discrete spirit and conscious life
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ethnic religion
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a religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated
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fundamentalism
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literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion
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universalizing religion
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a religion that attempts to appeal to all people
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ethnic cleansing
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process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
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ethnicity
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identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions
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ethnonationalism
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the identification and loyalty a person may feel for his or her nation
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ghetto
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places where a minority group live because of social, legal, or economic prsesure
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race
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identity with a group of people descended from a common acnestor
