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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Assimilation | the process through which people lose original differentiating traits, such as dress and speech, when they come into contact with another society or culture. |
| Glocalization | The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter religion, national, and global process. |
| Commodification | The process through which something is given monetary value. Occurs when a good or idea that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that can be traded in a market economy. |
| Hearth | The are where an idea or cultural trait originates. |
| Culture | The sum knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. This is anthropologist Ralph Linton's definition. |
| 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. |
| Distance Decay | The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction. |
| 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 and making it their own. |
| Folk Culture | Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities. |
| Local Culture | Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others. |
| Space-Time Compression | the speed of transportation making places "closer" together in terms of social distance. |
| Cultural appropriation | The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit |
| During 1800s and 1900s US government had an official policy that made American Indians American instead of Indian. The gov forced them into one place and made them farm instead of fish. THey rewarded them with jobs and citizenship. | Assimilation examples |
| Custom | a repetitive act a group performed to the extent that it becomes a characteristic of the group |
| Nonmaterial culture | Beliefs, practices, aesthetics, values |
| Material culture | Constructed items, frequently expressing nonmaterial culture |
| Practiced by large, heterogeneous group | Popular culture Traits |
| Rapid spread of new traits, often by hierarchical diffusion from a hearth, through transportation, communication, and marketing networks | Popular Culture Diffusion |
| Isolation (clustered pattern-map page 110 of Rubenstein) Common economic activity among members Anabaptists | Folk Culture Traits |
| Utah area and Salt Lake City | Mormon Culture Lives Here |
| Globalization is a threat to Local Culture. The fast diffusion of popular culture is another one | Threat to Local Culture |
| Live in Farming Villages Symmetrical Brick Houses Unpaved roads | Mormon Culture Traits |
| Tidewater | One story, steep roof, chimneys on either end, prominent porches |
| I House | Mid atlantic One room deep, two rooms wide |
| New England Saltbox | Tall with one side of the roof very slanted |
| diffuses through relocation and migration | local culture diffusion |
| Acculturation | occurs when a less dominant culture comes into contact with and adopts traits from a more dominant culture |
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