AP Human Geography: People, Place and Culture Chapter 4 – Flashcards
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Culture
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A group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people
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Popular Culture
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is large, incorporates a heterogeneous population, is typically urban, and experiences quickly changing cultural traits
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Local Culture
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A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and triats and work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others
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Material Culture
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Includes things they construct, such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance, and foods
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Nonmaterial Culture
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Includes beliefs, practices, aesthetics (what they see as attractive), and values
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Hierarchical Diffusion
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In popular culture, fashion trends spread quite quickly through the interconnected world
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Hearth
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The point of origin
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Assimilation
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People of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family. The US government wanted to do this to the Native Indians
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Custom
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A practice that a group of people routinely follows
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Cultural Appropriation
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The process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit
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Neolocalism
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Seeking out regional culture and reinvigorating it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world
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Ethnic Neighborhoods
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Some local cultures have successfully built a world apart, a place to practice their customs, within a major city by constructing these tight knit areas
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Commodification
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The process by which something (a name, a good, or an idea) that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought or sold becomes an object that can be bought, sold and traded in the world market
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Distance Decay
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The intensity of human activity, process, or function declines as distance from its source increases
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Time-Space Compression
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Explains how quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are through transportation and communication technologies
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Reterritorialization
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A process in which people start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and place, and making it their own
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Cultural Landscape
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The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape
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Placelessness
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The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape to the point that one place looks like the next
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Global-local Continuum
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In less obvious ways, cultural borrowing and mixing is happening all around the world
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Glocalization
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People in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processess
