272081482 | total way of life of a group of people | culture | |
272081483 | smaller, homogeneous population, typically rural, cohesive in cultural traits | folk culture | |
272081484 | larger, heterogeneous populations, typically urban, quickly changing cultural traits | popular culture | |
272081485 | a group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a community, who share experiences, customs and traits and work hard to preserve them | local culture | |
272081486 | elements of culture that are tangible - housing, clothing, food, music, art, etc. | material culture | |
272081487 | elements of culture that are nontangible - beliefs, practices, aesthetics, values | non-material culture | |
272081488 | diffusion through a hierarchy, from large cities to small towns or from trendsetters to the average person | hierarchical diffusion | |
272081489 | point of origin of a cultural trait | hearth | |
272081490 | to conform to a set of cultural traits, to learn to fit in | assimilate | |
272081491 | a practice that a group of people follow on a routine basis | custom | |
272081492 | the process of adopting traits/customs from other groups for the benefit of the adopting group | cultural appropriation | |
272081493 | taking a regional/local culture and doing something that reinvigorates it | neolocalism | |
272081494 | urban local culture area (ex: New York's Chinatowns) | ethnic neighborhoods | |
272081495 | the process of taking something not usually thought of as a product to be bought and sold and turning it into one | commodification | |
272081496 | the "true-ness" of something ("inauthentic" products are usually made based on a stereotype) | authenticity | |
272081497 | the further the distance and the longer the time elapsed, the less likely an idea is to be diffused | distance decay | |
272081498 | diffusion occurs most rapidly between locations that are highly connected via transportation and communication networks | time-space compression | |
272081499 | when people in a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, making it their own | reterritorialization | |
272081500 | the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape, the cultural elements that make locations different from each other | cultural landscape | |
272081501 | the loss of uniqueness so that one place looks like the next | placelessness | |
272081502 | the idea that what happens at one geographic scale (local, regional, national, global) is related to what happens at other scales | global-local continuum | |
272081503 | when people alter regional, national, and global processes to make them fit their local culture | glocalization | |
272081504 | an area in which housing styles reflects the culture of the people who inhabit that area | folk housing region | |
272081505 | the geographic path by which cultural traits or other phenomena spread | diffusion routes |
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