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| 13448254031 | Culture | a group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people | 0 | |
| 13448254032 | Folk Culture | cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, customs, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities, Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. | 1 | |
| 13448254033 | 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, Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. | 2 | |
| 13448254034 | Local Culture | a group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits | 3 | |
| 13448254035 | Material Culture | the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people | 4 | |
| 13448254036 | Nonmaterial Culture | the beliefs practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people | 5 | |
| 13448254037 | Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places | 6 | |
| 13448254038 | Hearth | The area where an idea or cultural trait originates | 7 | |
| 13448254039 | Assimilate | when people lose originally differentiating traits when they come into contact with another society or culture | 8 | |
| 13448254040 | Custom | Practice routinely followed by a group of people. | 9 | |
| 13448254041 | Cultural Appropriation | the process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit. | 10 | |
| 13448254042 | Neolocalism | The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world. | 11 | |
| 13448254043 | Ethnic Neighborhood | an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background | 12 | |
| 13448254044 | 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. | 13 | |
| 13448254045 | Authenticity | The accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs. | 14 | |
| 13448254046 | Distance Decay | the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction | 15 | |
| 13448254047 | Time-Space Compression | explains how quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are found by David Harvey | 16 | |
| 13448254048 | Reterritorialization | when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, making it suit their needs | 17 | |
| 13448254049 | Cultural Landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape | 18 | |
| 13448254050 | Placelessness | The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next | 19 | |
| 13448254051 | Global-Local Continuum | notion that what happens at the global scale directly effects what happens at the global scale directly effects what happens at a local scale, and vice versa | 20 | |
| 13448254052 | Glocalization | The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes | 21 | |
| 13448254053 | Folk-Housing Regions | region win which the housing stock predominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area | 22 | |
| 13448254054 | Diffusion Routes | the spatial trajectory through which the cultural traits or other phenomena spread | 23 | |
| 13448254055 | Remittances | Money migrants send back to family and friends in their home countries, often in cash, forming an important part of the economy in many poorer countries. | 24 | |
| 13448254056 | Cyclic Movements | Movement - for example, nomadic migration - that has closed route and is repeated annually or seasonally. | 25 | |
| 13448254057 | Periodic Movement | For example, college attendance or military service - that involves temporary, recurrent relocation. | 26 | |
| 13448254058 | Migration | A change in residence intended to be permanent. | 27 | |
| 13448254059 | Activity Spaces | The space within which daily activity occurs. | 28 | |
| 13448254060 | Nomadism | Movement among a definite set of places | 29 | |
| 13448254061 | Migrant Labor | A common type of periodic movement involving millions of workers in the United States and tens of millions of workers worldwide who cross international borders in search of employment and become immigrants, in many instances. | 30 | |
| 13448254062 | Transhumance | A seasonal periodic movement of pastoralists and their livestock between highland and lowland pastures. | 31 | |
| 13448254063 | Military Service | Another common form of periodic movement involving as many as 10 million United States citizens in a given year, including military personnel and their families, who are moved to new locations where they will spend tours of duty lasting up to several years | 32 | |
| 13448254064 | International Migration | Human movement involving movement across international boundaries. | 33 | |
| 13448254065 | Immigration | The act of a person migrating into a particular country or era. | 34 | |
| 13448254066 | Internal Migration | Human movement within a nation-state, such as ongoing westward and southward movements in the United States. | 35 | |
| 13448254067 | Forced Migration | Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate | 36 | |
| 13448254068 | Voluntary Migration | Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity, not because they are forced to move. | 37 | |
| 13448254069 | Laws of Migration | Developed by British demographer Ernst Ravenstein, five laws that predict the flow of migrants. | 38 | |
| 13448254070 | Gravity Model | A mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them. | 39 | |
| 13448254071 | Push Factors | Negative conditions and perceptions that induce people to leave their adobe and migrate to a new location | 40 | |
| 13448254072 | Pull Factors | Positive conditions and perceptions that effectively attract people to new locales from other areas. | 41 | |
| 13448254073 | Distance Decay | The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction. | 42 | |
| 13448254074 | Step Migration | Migration to a distant destination that occurs in stages, for example, from farm to nearby village and later to a town and city | 43 | |
| 13448254075 | Intervening Opportunity | The presence of a nearer opportunity that greatly diminishes the attractiveness of sites farther away. | 44 | |
| 13448254076 | Deportation | The act of the government sending a migrant out of its country and back to the migrants home country. | 45 | |
| 13448254077 | Kinship Links | Types of push factors or pull factors that influence a migrant's decision to go where family or friends have already found success. | 46 | |
| 13448254078 | Chain Migration | A pattern of migration that develops when migrants move along and through kinship links (i.e. one migrant settles in a place and then writes, calls, or communicates through others to describe this place to family and friends who in turn then migrate there) | 47 | |
| 13448254079 | Immigration Wave | Phenomenon whereby different patterns of chain migration build upon one another to create a swell in migration from one origin to the same destination. | 48 | |
| 13448254080 | Global Scale Migratiom | Migration that takes place across international boundaries and between world regions. | 49 | |
| 13448254081 | Explorers | A person examining a region that is unknown to them. | 50 | |
| 13448254082 | Colonization | A physical process whereby the colonizer takes over another place, putting its own government in charge and either moving its own people into the place or bringing in indentured outsiders to gain control of the people and the land. | 51 | |
| 13448254083 | Regional Scale | Interactions occurring within a region, in a regional setting. | 52 | |
| 13448254084 | Islands of Development | Place built up by a government or corporation to attract foreign investment and which has relatively high concentrations of paying jobs and infrastructure.. | 53 | |
| 13448254085 | Russification | The Soviet policy to promote the diffusion of Russian culture throughout the republics of the former Soviet Union. | 54 | |
| 13448254086 | Guest Workers | Legal immigrant who has a work visa, usually short term. | 55 | |
| 13448254087 | Refugees | People who have fled their country because of political persecution and seek asylum in another country. | 56 | |
| 13448254088 | Internally Displaced Persons | People who have been displaced within their own countries and do not cross international borders as they flee. | 57 | |
| 13448254089 | Asylum | Shelter and protection in one state for refugees from another state. | 58 | |
| 13448254090 | Repatriation | A refugee or group of refugees returning to their home country, usually with the assistance of government or a non-governmental organization. | 59 | |
| 13448254091 | Genocide | Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial, or religious group. | 60 | |
| 13448254092 | Immigration Laws | Laws and regulations of a state designed specifically to control immigration into that state. | 61 | |
| 13448254093 | Quotas | Established limits by governments on the number of immigrants who can enter a country each year. | 62 | |
| 13448254094 | Selective Immigration | Process to control immigration in which individuals with certain backgrounds (i.e. criminal records, poor health, or subversive activities) are barred from immigrating. | 63 | |
| 13448254095 | Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. |  | 64 |
| 13448254096 | Balkanization | A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. |  | 65 |
| 13448254097 | Barrio | A Spanish-speaking neighborhood. |  | 66 |
| 13448254098 | Blockbusting | A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood. |  | 67 |
| 13448254099 | Centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. |  | 68 |
| 13448254100 | Centrifugal force | A strong, divisive force, such as religious differences or a weak communication systems, at work in a country. |  | 69 |
| 13448254101 | Ethnic cleansing | A purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas. |  | 70 |
| 13448254102 | Ethnic enclave | A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area. |  | 71 |
| 13448254103 | Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth. |  | 72 |
| 13448254104 | Genocide | The mass killing of a group of people in attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence. |  | 73 |
| 13448254105 | Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country. |  | 74 |
| 13448254106 | Nationality | Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place. |  | 75 |
| 13448254107 | Race | Identity with a group of people who are perceived to share a physiological trait, such as skin color. |  | 76 |
| 13448254108 | Racism | Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. |  | 77 |
| 13448254109 | Self-determination | The ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will. |  | 78 |
| 13448254110 | Ethnocentrism | Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group. |  | 79 |
| 13448254111 | Balkanized | A small geographic area that cannot successfully be organized into stable countries because it is inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other. |  | 80 |
| 13448254112 | Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. |  | 81 |
| 13448254113 | Sharecropper | A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops. |  | 82 |
