6325113201 | Culture | shared patterns of learned behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge. | 0 | |
6325113202 | Culture trait | A single component of culture. | 1 | |
6325115323 | Culture Region | An area that shares a large number of culture traits. | 2 | |
6387486659 | Culture Realms | Larger areas based on a few broad cultural similarities | 3 | |
6387493232 | Culture Complex | a unique combination of culture traits for a particular culture group | 4 | |
6387503841 | Technological Subsystem | composed of material objects, together with the techniques of their use, by means of which people are able to live | 5 | |
6387506210 | Artifact | An individual culture trait that falls within the technological subsystem | 6 | |
6389199670 | Cultural Convergance | Traits of one culture becoming very similar to another (ex: Japanese eating hamburgers while drinking coca-cola ) | 7 | |
6389208055 | Sociological Subsystem | How people in a culture are expected to interact with each other and how their social intuitions are structured | 8 | |
6389219096 | Sociofacts | Culture traits in the sociological subsystem | 9 | |
6389226239 | Ideological Subsystem | Ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge of a culture | 10 | |
6389265240 | Mentifacts | Individual traits in the Ideological subsystem | 11 | |
6391312269 | Cultural Diffusion | The expansion and adoption of a cultural element, from its place of origin to a wider area. | 12 | |
6391313838 | Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate. | 13 | |
6391319314 | Relocation Diffusion | a form of diffusion that involves the actual movement of the original adopters from their point of origin to a new place | 14 | |
6391321493 | Contagious Diffusion | The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population. | 15 | |
6391324912 | Hierarchical Diffusion | the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places | 16 | |
6391351861 | Cultural Landscape | Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. (Example: Churches, Roads, etc and how they're built etc) | 17 | |
6391362840 | Folk Culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. | 18 | |
6391367440 | Popular Culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. | 19 | |
6391373681 | Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. | 20 | |
6391377154 | Ethnocentrism | Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group. | 21 | |
6391379308 | Emergent Ethnicity | the process in which a new ethnic group or identity appear | 22 | |
6391381723 | Resurgent Identity | The return of previously faded ethnic groups or ethnic pride | 23 | |
6391383060 | Acculturation | The process of learning how to operate within a new culture | 24 | |
6391383061 | Assimilation | The adoption of a new culture and the abandonment of most aspects of an original culture | 25 | |
6391405024 | Cultural Assimilation | Cultural group maintaining a strong self identity yet has adopted enough of the culture traits of the host society to be a functioning member of it | 26 | |
6391413919 | Functional Assimilation | Fusion of an ethnic group with the majority society | 27 | |
6391418944 | Ethnic Neighborhoods | Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs | 28 | |
6391420547 | Ghettos | a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups. | 29 | |
6391423075 | Ethnoburbs | a suburban ethnic neighborhood, sometimes home to relatively affluent immigration populations | 30 | |
6391424162 | Ethnic Islands | moderately sized areas of ethnic concentration in rural, or non-urban areas, such as Amish or Hutterite communitie | 31 | |
6391425456 | Cluster Migration | a pattern of movement and settlement resulting from the collective action of distinctive social or ethnic group | 32 | |
6391432191 | Ethnic Provinces | Large areas associated with a particular ethnic group, such as French-speaking Quebec and Southwestern part of the US | 33 | |
6391432192 | Hanification | the Chinese government practice of moving Han Chinese citizens into minority ethnic areas to dilute the importance of the minority culture. | 34 | |
6391435136 | Feminist Geography | an approach to human geography that focuses on gender relationships as being central to our understanding of how space is created and arranged | 35 | |
6391436867 | Gendered Spaces | places that are considered male or female, or even gender neutral | 36 | |
6391448381 | Food Taboo | a prohibition against consuming certain foods | 37 | |
6391453721 | Toponym | place name | 38 | |
6391460798 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 39 | |
6391460799 | Patois | A REGIONAL DIALECT; NONSTANDARD SPEECH; JARGON | 40 | |
6391462351 | Vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people | 41 | |
6391462352 | Lingua Franca | A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages. | 42 | |
6391463924 | Pidgin | Language that may develop when two groups of people with different languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language. | 43 | |
6391465268 | Grimm's Law | describes a number of consonant shifts in the prehistory of Germanic. | 44 | |
6391465269 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history. | 45 | |
6391469002 | Proto-Language | the common ancestor of a family of modern languages | 46 | |
6391470108 | Sprachbund | a group of languages from different families or branches of a family that share grammatical of lexical similarities because of proximity | 47 | |
6391472669 | Received Pronounciation | Standard Form of English; RP | 48 | |
6391475917 | Language Divergence | when a language breaks into dialects due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of a language, and continued isolation causes new languages to be formed | 49 | |
6391477800 | Language Convergence | The collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interaction of peoples with different languages; the opposite of language divergence | 50 | |
6391479257 | Language Extinction | This occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people. Thousands of languages have become extinct over the eons since language first developed, but the process of language extinction has accelerated greatly during the past 300 years. | 51 | |
6391483163 | Toponymy | the study of place names | 52 | |
6391483164 | Loan Words | terms used in one language that have an origin in another language | 53 | |
6391572915 | Afro-Asiatic | A large language family found primarily in North Africa and Southwest Asia(the Middle East) | ![]() | 54 |
6391572916 | Indo-European | includes Germanic and romance languages, spoken b about 50% of the world's people | ![]() | 55 |
6391575220 | Niger-Congo | a large language family of 1400 languages spoken primarily in Africa | ![]() | 56 |
6391580036 | Malayo-Polynesian | a large language family of over 1200 tongues spoken primarily in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific | ![]() | 57 |
6391580047 | Sino-Tibetan | language area that spreads through most of China and Southeast Asia | ![]() | 58 |
6391638418 | Homogeneous | of a similar kind | 59 | |
6391659637 | Cultural Relativism | The practice of trying to understand a culture on its own terms and to judge a culture by its own standards. | 60 | |
6391733865 | Sacred Directions | wtf is this I can't find it anywhere | 61 | |
6391739948 | Symbols | Terms, concepts, or items that represent specific meanings by accepted convention. | 62 | |
6391741032 | Space | The physical gap or interval between two objects. | 63 |
AP Human Geography: Midterms Flashcards
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