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| 89483001 | Culture | the sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society | |
| 89483002 | Folk Culture | cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities | |
| 89483003 | Folklore | the "traditional" usually oral literature of a society, consisiting of various genres such as myth, legend, folktale, song, proverb , and many others | |
| 89483004 | Popular Culture | cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changable, urban-based, media-influenced western societies | |
| 89483005 | Material Culture | the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people | |
| 89483006 | Built Environment | the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter and buildings to neighborhoods and cites, and can often include their supporting infrastructure, such as water supply or energy network | |
| 89483007 | Nonmaterial Culture | the beliefs, practices, aesthics, and values of a group of people | |
| 89483008 | Cultural Appropriation | the process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit | |
| 89483009 | Neolocalism | the seeking out of regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertanity of the modern world | |
| 89483010 | Ethnic Neighborhoods | neighborhoods, typically situated in a larger metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can pratice its customs | |
| 89483011 | 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 | |
| 89483012 | Distance Decay | the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction | |
| 89483013 | Time-Space Compression | refers to the social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reach a high level of intensity | |
| 89483014 | Time-Space Convergence | refers to the greatly accelerated movement of goods, information, and ideas during the twentieth century made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communications | |
| 89483015 | Reterritorialization | 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 local culture and making it their own | |
| 89483016 | Hierarchial Diffusion | diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples | |
| 89483017 | Contagious Diffusion | distance-controlled spreading of an idea,innovation, or some other item through a local population by contract from person to person | |
| 89483018 | Stimulus Diffusion | a form of diffusion in which a cultural adaption is created as a result of the introduction of a cultural trait from another place | |
| 89483019 | 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 to new ones | |
| 89483020 | Assimilation | process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, whenthey come into contact with another society or culture | |
| 89483021 | Acculturation | process of adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage | |
| 89483022 | Cultural Landscape | the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape | |
| 89483023 | Sequent Occupance | the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape | |
| 89483024 | Placelessness | the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next | |
| 89483025 | Global-Local Continuum | the notion that what happens at the global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vice versa | |
| 89483026 | Glocalization | the process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes | |
| 89483027 | Adaptive Strategy | a society's system of economic production | |
| 89483028 | Folk-Housing Regions | a region in which the housing stock predominately reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area | |
| 89483029 | Anglo-American Landscape | township and range patterns established by early settlers | |
| 89483030 | Traditional Architecture | area in which structures were built as it was being established | |
| 89483031 | Folk Songs | songs that are traditonally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture | |
| 89483032 | Folk Food | food that is tradtionally made by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture |
