BHS Weatherley 2010-2011
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| 6203526919 | Artifact | Any item, made by humans, that represents a material aspect of culture |  | 0 |
| 6203526920 | Built environment | The man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-scale civic surroundings. | 1 | |
| 6203526921 | Cultural convergence | The contact and interaction of one culture to another. | 2 | |
| 6203526922 | Cultural/environmental perception | The concept that people of different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decision about its nature, potentiality and use. | 3 | |
| 6203526923 | Cultural landscape | Modifications to the environment by humans, including the built environment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects of their culture |  | 4 |
| 6203526924 | Cultural realm | The entire region throughout which a culture prevails. Criteria that may be chosen to define culture realms include religion, language, diet, customs, or economic development. |  | 5 |
| 6203526925 | Cultural hearth | Locations on earth's surface where specific cultures first arose. | 6 | |
| 6203526926 | Cultural trait | The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture. | 7 | |
| 6203526927 | Cultural region | a region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features. | 8 | |
| 6203526928 | Custom | Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group. |  | 9 |
| 6203526929 | Folk culture (folkways) | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. | 10 | |
| 6203526930 | Food attraction | Reasons certain culture/region eat certain types of food. | 11 | |
| 6203526931 | Habit | a repetitive act that a particular individual performs. |  | 12 |
| 6203526932 | Material culture | The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture |  | 13 |
| 6203526933 | Popular culture | Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine-made goods. |  | 14 |
| 6203526934 | Possibilism | The theory that the physical may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. |  | 15 |
| 6203526935 | Taboo | a restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom. |  | 16 |
| 6203526936 | Uniform Landscape | the spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another. | 17 | |
| 6203526937 | Relocation diffusion | sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate the new ones | 18 | |
| 6203526938 | acculturation | when one group of people adopt the culture traits of another culture | 19 | |
| 6203526939 | cultural assimilation | the process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture |  | 20 |
| 6203526940 | commodification | The process through which something is given monetary value. Commodification 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. |  | 21 |
| 6203526941 | cultural appropriation | sociological concept which views the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture as a largely negative phenomenon |  | 22 |
| 6203526942 | cultural adaptation | new people adapt to the culture of the previously existing people | 23 | |
| 6203526943 | immaterial culture | The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people |  | 24 |
| 6203526944 | Culture | material traits, customary beliefs, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people. | 25 | |
| 6203526945 | Material trait | daily necessities (like food, clothing or shelter), leisure activities (like art and recreation), habits and custom, culture and migration (globalization, placelessness and migration | 26 | |
| 6203526946 | Daily necessities | like food, clothing, shelter and leisure activities like art and recreation. Ex. Food, clothes, music | 27 | |
| 6203526947 | Habit | repetitive, individual | 28 | |
| 6203526948 | Custom | repetitive act of a group which becomes characteristics. | 29 | |
| 6203526949 | Why are places similar | Globalization, Placelessness and Migration. | 30 | |
| 6203526950 | Migration | Usually people travel to bring their culture with them. | 31 | |
| 6203526951 | Distance decay | Distance is going to foster differences in cultural traits | 32 | |
| 6203526952 | Gumbo | here will be similar to gumbo in Africa, but there are differences. | 33 | |
| 6203526953 | Beliefs and value | language and religion | 34 | |
| 6203526954 | Social forms | ethnicity and political institutions | 35 | |
| 6203526955 | Folk culture | Has a hearth that is unidentifiable, homogenous, has a small distribution, diffuses very slowly if it diffuses | 36 | |
| 6203526956 | Homogenous | one type of group of people will do this, as a small distribution, diffuses very slowly if it diffuses | 37 | |
| 6203526957 | Folk Diffusion | when people move and take stuff with them | 38 | |
| 6203526958 | Popular culture | 39 | ||
| 6203526959 | Popular culture | is dynamic many people can participate, wide distribution, diffuses very rapidly, Music halls in UK, Vaudeville in US - theater where there were a variety of arts, Tin Pan Alley - first motion pictures, and 1940s WWII music was diffused to other soldiers in other countries to keep them entertained. | 40 | |
| 6203526960 | Folk culture | Has a hearth that is unidentifiable, homogenous (one type of group of people will do this), has a small distribution and diffuses very slowly if it diffuses. | 41 | |
| 6203526961 | Folk diffusion | slow, relocation diffusion | 42 | |
| 6203526962 | Pop diffusion | fast, hierarchical | 43 | |
| 6203526963 | Folk ways | informal norms, virtues or characteristics that a culture has from mild social pressure, not law. | 44 | |
| 6203526964 | Material culture | tangible things that apply to their culture | 45 | |
| 6203526965 | Non-material culture | ideals or aesthetics that apply to their culture | 46 | |
| 6203526966 | Cultural Possibilism | an environment influences but does not strictly determine elements of a culture | 47 | |
| 6203526967 | Culture Trait | one single attribute of a culture | 48 | |
| 6203526968 | Culture Complex | many culture traits together. Not just random things, but also the intangible | 49 | |
| 6203526969 | Cultural Barrier | something that prohibits the interaction of two cultures | 50 | |
| 6203526970 | Cultural integration | when all aspects of a society become interwoven into the dominant culture | 51 | |
| 6203526971 | Syncretism | fusion of two distinctive cultural traits that morph into one new hybrid trait. | 52 | |
| 6203526972 | Resistance to dominant culture | 53 | ||
| 6203526973 | Acculturation | 54 | ||
| 6203526974 | Assimilation | 55 | ||
| 6203526975 | Diffusion of the Amish The Amish were diffused by relocation diffusion. They were originally from Bern, Switzerland created by a bishop named Jakob Ammann. Some other hearths of the Amish culture comes from Alsace in Northern France and Palatinate region of southwestern Germany. One group of Amish people, migrated in early 1700s because of the low price of the land and the second group came in the early 1800s for religious freedom. | 56 | ||
| 6203526976 | Challenges the Amish face of sustaining their folk culture | The price of land is very expensive now, forcing the Amish to sell their land and incorporated themselves into society. Tourists come to their communities because there are curious as to how they live | 57 | |
| 6203526977 | Diffusion of popular culture been good for women? | The diffusion of pop culture has been good for women because it reforms the idea that men are always above women. The diffusion of pop culture has been bad for women because it has increased global prostitution and increased the amount of money a bride in India must pay to get married. | 58 | |
| 6203526978 | Negative impacts diffusion of popular culture on the women of India. | Men in India most likely see how good people in pop culture have it and they would like to have those luxuries as well, so they ask their wives to be to give them some money to afford this luxury. Soon these men got in the habit of receiving these dowries that they demanded them. Some women are not as wealthy as others, which means that some women will be cut out of the marriage or they become a burden to the husband which can lead to physical abuse. | 59 | |
| 6203526979 | Ways that the diffusion of popular culture can adversely impact environmental quality? | The two ways that the diffusion of pop culture can adversely impact environmental quality is pollution of the landscape and depletion of scarce natural resources. | 60 | |
| 6203526980 | Pollution of landscapes | Pollution of landscapes is when the landscape is polluted by modifying it with little regard to the local environment conditions. | 61 | |
| 6203526981 | Example of popular culture creating uniformed landscapes. | For example when a fast food restaurant creates it great logo, they plaster it all over their products. If this restaurant food is distributed nationally, then this restaurant will be in many interstate exits with that logo for that company. | 62 | |
| 6203526982 | Golf an example of popular culture changing the physical landscape? | Golf is changing the physical landscape because the builders of the golf course use foreign grass that probably uses more water than obtained because of such strong pigmentation. Also, golf is an example of pop culture changing the physical environment because of all the hills and valleys that need to be in places nature had not intended them to grow. | 63 | |
| 6203526983 | Difference between popular culture and folk culture when it comes to waste? | Pop culture produces high volume waste. Most of it is solid waste that are thrown away rather than recycled.Folk culture produces waste harmful to the environment as well. Some folk customs include burning grasslands for hunting and planting, cutting down extensive forests, overhunting a certain species and soil erosion. | 64 | |
| 6203526984 | Example of popular culture depleting animal products? | Humans really enjoy having many coats made of animal fur such as the panda and now they are going extinct. | 65 | |
| 6203526985 | Four ways that materials that would otherwise be "thrown away" are collected and processed? | Recycling through curbside programs, Recycling through drop off centers, Recycling through buy-back centers, Recycling through deposit programs. | 66 | |
| 6203526986 | Four common materials manufactured into new products? | Paper, Plastic, Glass, Aluminum | 67 |
