AP Human Geography Rubenstein Chapter 4 Folk Culture Flashcards
BHS Weatherley 2010-2011
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| 87337134 | Artifact | Any item, made by humans, that represents a material aspect of culture | 0 | |
| 87337135 | 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 | |
| 87337136 | Core-domain-sphere model | The place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest. | 2 | |
| 87337137 | Cultural convergence | The contact and interaction of one culture to another. | 3 | |
| 87337138 | 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 | |
| 87337139 | Cultural landscape | Modifications to the environment by humans, including the built environment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects if their culture | 5 | |
| 87337140 | 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 | |
| 87337141 | Cultural hearth | Locations on earth's surface where specific cultures first arose. | 7 | |
| 87337142 | Cultural complex | The group of traits that define a particular culture. | 8 | |
| 87337143 | 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. | 9 | |
| 87337144 | Cultural region | a region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features. | 10 | |
| 87337145 | Custom | Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group. | 11 | |
| 87337146 | Environmental determinism | A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions. | 12 | |
| 87337147 | Folk culture (folkways) | Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups. | 13 | |
| 87337148 | Food attraction | Reasons certain culture/region eat certain types of food. | 14 | |
| 87337149 | Habit | a repetitive act that a particular individual performs. | 15 | |
| 87337150 | Material culture | The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture | 16 | |
| 87337151 | Mentifact | The central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, and etc. | 17 | |
| 87337152 | Popular culture | Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine-made goods. | 18 | |
| 87337153 | Possibilism | The theory that the physical may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. | 19 | |
| 87337154 | Sociofact | The institutions and links between individuals and groups that unite a culture, including family structure and political, educational and religious institutions. | 20 | |
| 87337155 | Taboo | a restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom. | 21 | |
| 87337156 | Uniform Landscape | the spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another. | 22 | |
| 87337157 | Expansion diffusion | the spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area | 23 | |
| 87337158 | 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 the new ones | 24 |