Flashcards: Chapter 4 Key Terms Human Geography
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Dennismoore1 on October 6, 2008
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 assimilation | process through which people lose originally different traits |
| authenticity | the accuracy with which an image conveys culture |
| commodification | the process though which something is given monetary value |
| cultural appropriation | the process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures |
| cultural landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape |
| culture | the sum total of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by the members of a society |
| custom | practice routinely followed by a group of people |
| distance decay | the effects of distance on interaction |
| diffusion routes | the spatial trajectory through which cultural traits spread |
| ethnic neighborhood | neighborhood comprised of a local culture within a city |
| folk culture | culture traits and institutions of small traditional communities |
| folk housing regions | a region in which styles of building reflect the culture |
| global-local continuum | the notion that what happens at the global scale affects what happens at the local scale |
| glocalization | the process by which people in a local place alter regional, national, and global processes |
| hearth | an area where an idea or cultural trait originates |
| hierarchical diffusion | a form of diffusion in which an idea spreads by passing first among the most connected places or people |
| local culture | group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a comunity |
| material culture | the physical cultural traits of a culture |
| nonmaterial culture | the beliefs practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people |
| neolocalism | the seeking out of regional culture in response to uncertainty of the modern world |
| placelessness | the loss of uniqueness of a place |
| popular culture | cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music, that identify western societies |
| reteritorialization | 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 and making it their own |
| time-space compression | the social and psychological effect of living in a world with greatly accelerated movement of information |