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| 36906094 | Culture | The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society. | |
| 36906095 | Folk Culture | Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, customs, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities. | |
| 36906096 | Popular Culture | Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are a part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influemced western societies. | |
| 36906097 | 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 wrk to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themsleves from others. | |
| 36906098 | Material Culture | The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people. | |
| 36906099 | Nonmaterial Culture | The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people. | |
| 36906100 | Hierarchical Diffusion | A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. | |
| 36906101 | Hearth | The area where an idea or cultural trait originates. | |
| 36906102 | Assimilation | The process through which people lose orginally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture. | |
| 36906103 | Custom | Practice routinely followed by agroup of people. | |
| 36906104 | Cultural Appropriation | The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit. | |
| 36906105 | Neolocalism | The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world. | |
| 36906106 | Ethnic Neighborhood | Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitain city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs. | |
| 36906107 | Commodification | The process through which something is given monetary value. Occurs when a when a good or idea that was previously not regarded as an item to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that can be traded in a market economy. | |
| 36906108 | Authenticity | The accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs. | |
| 36906109 | Distance Decay | The effects of distance interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction. | |
| 36906110 | Time-space Compression | A term associated with the work of David Harvey that refers to the socail and physiological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity. | |
| 36906111 | Reterritiorialization | 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. | |
| 36906112 | Cultural Landscape | The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape. | |
| 36906113 | Placelessness | Defined by the geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next. | |
| 36906114 | Global-local Continuum | The notion that what happens at a global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vice versa. | |
| 36906115 | Glocalization | The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes. | |
| 36906116 | Folk-housing Region | A region in which the housing stock prodominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area. | |
| 36906117 | Diffusion Routes | The spacial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spreads. |
