3978995822 | tenements | crowded apartments (poorly equip) | 0 | |
3978995823 | redlining | policy to hand out loans (illegal) | 1 | |
3978995824 | blockbusting | segregating communities | 2 | |
3978995825 | counter urbanization | more people moving to the country (sprawling; spreading out) | 3 | |
3978995826 | culture | specialize behavioral patterns, understandings, adaptations, and social systems that summarize a group of people's learned ways of life | 4 | |
3981140444 | culture complex | individual cultural traits that are functionally interrelated ( american football-- sports culture) | 5 | |
3981140445 | culture region | portion of the earth's surface occupied by populations sharing recognizable distinctive cultural characteristics (economic type) | 6 | |
3981140446 | culture realm | a set of cultural regions showing related cultural complexes and landscapes | 7 | |
3981140447 | custom | frequent repetition of an act until it becomes characteristics of a group of people | 8 | |
3981140448 | habit | repetitive act performed by an individual | 9 | |
3981140449 | folk culture | traditionally practiced by a small homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation | 10 | |
3981140450 | pop culture | found in large heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in person characteristics | 11 | |
3981140451 | material culture | the physical objects produced by a culture in order to meet its material needs:food, clothing, shelter, arts, and recreation | 12 | |
3981140452 | wide distribution | differences from place to place, uncommon, more likely differences at one place over time | 13 | |
3981140453 | pollution | waste from generation and discarded products | 14 | |
3981140454 | taboo | a restriction on behavior imposed by social customs | 15 | |
3981140455 | assimilation | when two cultures meet and there's a total absorption of minority culture | 16 | |
3981140456 | acculturation | minority culture begins to blend with the majority | 17 | |
3981140457 | maladaptive diffusion | not practical diffusion | 18 | |
3981140458 | sequent occupancy | theory that overtimed different people conquer an area | 19 | |
3981140459 | political ecology | interaction between the government and economy | 20 | |
3981140460 | cultural convergence | when two cultural groups interact with eachother | 21 | |
3981140461 | cultural divergence | cultures isolate themselves from each other | 22 | |
3981140462 | transculturation | equal sharing of cultural traits | 23 | |
3981140463 | ethnocentrism | view of the world from your ethnicity | 24 | |
3981140464 | dialect | local form of a language | 25 | |
3981140465 | ideograms | symbols represent an idea or concept rather than a specific sound (used in china and east asian countries) | 26 | |
3981140466 | linguna franca | a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages | 27 | |
3981140467 | pidgin | a form of speech that adopts simplified grammar and limited vocabulary from a linguna franca (speakers of two different languages) | 28 | |
3996989024 | creole | a language that results from the mixing if a colonize's language with an indigenous language | 29 |
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