AP Human Geography Rubenstein Chapter 4 Folk Culture – Flashcards
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Artifact
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Any item, made by humans, that represents a material aspect of culture
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Built environment
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The man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-scale civic surroundings.
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Core-domain-sphere model
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The place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest.
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Cultural convergence
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The contact and interaction of one culture to another.
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Cultural/environmental perception
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The concept that people of different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decision about its nature, potentiality and use.
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Cultural landscape
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Modifications to the environment by humans, including the built environment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects if their culture
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Cultural realm
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The entire region throughout which a culture prevails. Criteria that may be chosen to define culture realms include religion, language, diet, customs, or economic development.
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Cultural hearth
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Locations on earth's surface where specific cultures first arose.
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Cultural complex
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The group of traits that define a particular culture.
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Cultural trait
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The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture.
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Cultural region
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a region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features.
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Custom
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Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group.
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Environmental determinism
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A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.
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Folk culture (folkways)
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Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
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Food attraction
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Reasons certain culture/region eat certain types of food.
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Habit
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a repetitive act that a particular individual performs.
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Material culture
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The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture
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Mentifact
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The central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, and etc.
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Popular culture
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Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine-made goods.
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Possibilism
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The theory that the physical may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
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Sociofact
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The institutions and links between individuals and groups that unite a culture, including family structure and political, educational and religious institutions.
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Taboo
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a restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom.
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Uniform Landscape
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the spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another.
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Expansion diffusion
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the spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area
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Relocation diffusion
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sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate the new ones
