| Term | Definition |
|---|
| assimilation | 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. |
| authenticity | 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. |
| commodification | The process through which something is given monetary value. |
| cultural appropriation | The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit |
| cultural landscape | The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape. |
| culture | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. |
| custom | Practice routinely followed by a group of people |
| diffusion routes | The spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spread |
| distance decay | The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction |
| ethnic neighborhoods | 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 |
| folk culture | Cultural traits such as clothings, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities |
| folk-housing regions | 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 |
| global-local continuum | The notion that what happens at the global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vice versa. |
| glocalization | The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes |
| hearth | The area where an idea or cultural trait originates |
| hierarchical diffusion | A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. |
| local culture | Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits. |
| material culture | The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people |
| neolocalism | The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world |
| nonmaterial culture | The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people |
| placelessness | Defined by geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next |
| popular culture | Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced western societies |
| Reterritorialization | 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 |
| time-space compression | 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 |
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