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| 82026756 | Culture | The specialized behavioral patterns, understandings, and adaptations that summarize the way of life of a group of people. | |
| 82026757 | Culture Traits | Units of learned behavior | |
| 82026758 | Culture Complex | Cultural traits that are functionally interrelated. | |
| 82026759 | Culture Region | An area that is distinct from surrounding or adjacent areas for a specific characteristic. | |
| 82026760 | Culture Realm | the set of cultural regions, showing related cultural complexes and landscapes | |
| 82026761 | Culture Hearth | areas of innovation from which key culture elements diffused to exert and influence on surrounding regions | |
| 82026762 | Cultural Integration | the interlocking nature of the sociological, technological, and ideological subsystems | |
| 82026763 | Cultural Lag | the unresponsiveness to changing circumstances and innovation | |
| 82026764 | Cultural Landscape | the earth's surface as modified by human action to produce a tangible, physical record of a given culture | |
| 82026765 | Absorbing Barrier | barrier that totally halts the spread of an innovation | |
| 82026766 | Permeable Barrier | barriers that permit passage or acceptance of at least some innovations that encounter them | |
| 82026767 | Contagious Diffusion | when expansion affects nearly uniformly all individual and areas outward from a source region | |
| 82026768 | Expansion Diffusion | when acceptance of or information about an innovation spreads throughout a society | |
| 82026769 | Hierarchical Diffusion | when movement of dispersal is either up or down through a system of classes or centers | |
| 82026770 | Relocation Diffusion | geographical transfer of culture traits by movements of people across space | |
| 82026771 | Innovation | material or non-material cultural development that results from need or stressful conditions | |
| 82026772 | Independent Invention | the notion that a culture trait could have developed in two different places at the same time | |
| 82026773 | Absolute Direction | the cardinal points of north, south, east and west | |
| 82026774 | Absolute Distance | the spatial separation between two points on the earth's surface | |
| 82026775 | Absolute Location | the identification of a place by a precise and accepted system of coordinates | |
| 82026776 | Relative Distance | the transformation of linear measurements into meaningful units | |
| 82026777 | Relative Direction | "out west", "back east"', "down south" | |
| 82026778 | Relative Location | the position of a place in relation to that of other places or activities | |
| 82026779 | Scale | relationship between the size of an area on a map and the surface of the earth | |
| 82026780 | Site | the physical and cultural characteristics and attributes of a place itself | |
| 82026781 | Situation | the relative location with particular reference to items of significance to the place in question |
