Rubenstein and others combined.
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| 261188946 | Artifact | Any item, made by humans, that represents a material aspect of culture | 0 | |
| 261188947 | 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 | |
| 261188948 | Core-domain-sphere model | The place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest. | 2 | |
| 261188949 | Cultural convergence | Tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication; occurs when the skills, arts, ideas, habits, and institutions of one culture come in contact with those of another culture. | 3 | |
| 261188950 | 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. | 4 | |
| 261188951 | Cultural landscape | Modifications to the environment by humans, including the built environment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects if their culture | 5 | |
| 261188952 | 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. | 6 | |
| 261188954 | Cultural complex | The group of traits that define a particular culture. | 7 | |
| 261188955 | 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. | 8 | |
| 261188956 | Cultural region | Region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features. | 9 | |
| 261188957 | Custom | Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group. | 10 | |
| 261188958 | Environmental determinism | A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions. | 11 | |
| 261188959 | Folk culture | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. | 12 | |
| 261188960 | Food attraction | Reasons certain culture/region eat certain types of food. | 13 | |
| 261188961 | Habit | a repetitive act that a particular individual performs. | 14 | |
| 261188962 | Material culture | The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture. | 15 | |
| 261188963 | Mentifact | The central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, and etc. | 16 | |
| 261188964 | Popular culture | Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies; permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; in money-based economy, producing and consuming machine-made goods. | 17 | |
| 261188965 | Possibilism | Theory that the physical may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. | 18 | |
| 261188966 | Sociofact | Institutions and links between individuals and groups that unite a culture, such as family structure, political, educational and religious institutions. | 19 | |
| 261188967 | Taboo | A restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom. | 20 | |
| 261188968 | Uniform Landscape | Spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another. | 21 | |
| 261188969 | Expansion diffusion | The spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area. | 22 | |
| 261188970 | Relocation diffusion | Sequential diffusion process iwhere items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they leave the old areas and relocate to new ones | 23 | |
| 261188971 | Terroir | The contribution of a location's distinctive features to the way food tastes. | 24 | |
| 261188972 | Local Diversity | Differences that are maintained around the world between places/ cultural groups no matter how much globalization spreads. | 25 | |
| 261188973 | Globalization | The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world. | 26 | |
| 261252476 | Architectural Form | The look of housing, effected by the available materials,the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time. | 27 | |
| 261252477 | Authenticity | The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed. | 28 | |
| 261252478 | Cultural Appropriation | The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit | 29 | |
| 261252479 | Folkways | Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture. See also Folk Culture. | 30 | |
| 261252480 | Folklore | The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally. The unwritten literature (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture. | 31 | |
| 261252481 | Maladaptive (maladapted) Diffusion | Diffusion in which image takes precedence over practicality; whatever trait diffuses doesn't suit it's new context. | 32 | |
| 261252482 | Nonmaterial Culture | Human creations, such as values, norms, knowledge, systems of government, language, and so on, that are not embodied in physical objects: The beliefs, ideas, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people. | 33 | |
| 261252483 | Placelessness | Defined by geographer Edward Relph as: the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next. | 34 | |
| 261252484 | Vernacular | The everyday speech of a particular country or region, often involving nonstandard usage; using plain, everyday, ordinary language. Could be applied to things other than language - e.g. architecture. | 35 | |
| 261294034 | Survey Systems | Pattern of land division used in an area. 1. Prevailing survey system in US: appears as checkerboards across agricultural fields: - township-and-range system. 2, Metes and bounds survey: used along the eastern seaboard, in which natural features were used to demarcate irregular parcels of land 3. Long lot survey system: divided land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals. Reflects approach to surveying common in French America. | 36 | |
| 261959604 | Acculturation | Adoption of behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; OR modification of social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend. | 37 | |
| 261959605 | Adaptation | Process of adjustment that enables people to function more effectively in meeting the demands they face in the environment. | 38 | |
| 261959606 | Assimilation | The process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture; the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another. | 39 | |
| 261959607 | Cultural Divergence | The likelihood or tendency for cultures to become increasingly dissimilar with the passage of time. The restriction of a culture from outside cultural influences | 40 | |
| 261959608 | Cultural Identity | The cultural tradition a group of people recognize as their own; the shared customs and beliefs that define how a group sees itself as distinctive. | 41 | |
| 261959609 | Cultural Integration | Degree to which parts of a culture form a consistent and interrelated whole; interrelationships among the various components (elements, subsystems) of a cultural system. | 42 | |
| 261959610 | Cultural Region | An area where certain cultural practices, beliefs, or values are practiced by the majority of the inhabitants. See Realm | 43 | |
| 261961803 | global-local-continuum | Notion that what happens at global scale has direct effect on what happens at local scale, and vice versa; posits that world is comprised of an interconnected series of relationships that extend across space. | 44 | |
| 261961804 | Glocalization | The process by which people in a local place alter regional, national, and global processes; "think globally, act locally"; can refer to a business strategy for MNCs (multinational corporations) to build local roots. | 45 | |
| 261961805 | Innovation Adoption | Study of how, why, and at what rate new technology spreads throughout a culture. Introduction of new ideas, practices, objects usually an alteration of custom or culture within a social group | 46 | |
| 1848551154 | Contagious Diffusion | The distance-controlled spreading of an idea, innovation, or other item through a local population by contact from person to person - analogous to the communication of a contagious illness. OR a form of expansion diffusion in which nearly all adjacent individuals and places are affected. | 47 | |
| 1848551155 | Diffusion | The act of dispersing or diffusing something, ideas, fashions, even people; the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another. | 48 | |
| 1848551156 | Hierarchical Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places. | 49 | |
| 1848551157 | Stimulus Diffusion | Spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected. Ideas that aren't accepted readily, but may slowly have indirect impact e.g. MacDonalds in India - no beef, but fast food concept. | 50 | |
| 1848593329 | Hearth | The region/ area/ place from which innovative ideas or cultural traits originate. Center of innovation. | 51 |
