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CH.4 Vocab. (Geo)

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sum total of knowledge
cultural traits: dress, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of small, traditional comunities
cultural traits: dress, diet, and music that identify and are apart of today's changeable western societies
group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a community
the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, other similar items created or constructed by a group of people
the beliefs, practices, aethics, and values of a group of people
form of diffusion in which innovation spreads by passing 1st among the most connected places or peoples
the area where an idea or cultural trait originates
process which people lose originally differentiating traits when they come in contact with another society
practice routinely followed by a group of people
process cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures
seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the undercertainty of the modern world
neighborhood, situation in a larger metropolitian city and constructed by a local culture
process through which something is given monetary value
the context of local cultures or customs
the effects of distance on interaction, the greater the distance the less interaction
refers to the social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity
when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves
the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape
as loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next
the notion that what happens at the global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and the other way around
process people in a local place meditate an alteregional, national, a global processes
a region the housing stock predominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture
the spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spread

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