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

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