AP Human Geography Chapter 4 Vocab

36906094	Culture	The sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
36906095	Folk Culture	Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, customs, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities.
36906096	Popular Culture	Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are a part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influemced western societies.
36906097	Local Culture	Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who wrk to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themsleves from others.
36906098	Material Culture	The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people.
36906099	Nonmaterial Culture	The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.
36906100	Hierarchical Diffusion	A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples.
36906101	Hearth	The area where an idea or cultural trait originates.
36906102	Assimilation	The process through which people lose orginally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture.
36906103	Custom	Practice routinely followed by agroup of people.
36906104	Cultural Appropriation	The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit.
36906105	Neolocalism	The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world.
36906106	Ethnic Neighborhood	Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitain city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs.
36906107	Commodification	The process through which something is given monetary value. Occurs when a when a good or idea that was previously not regarded as an item to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that can be traded in a market economy.
36906108	Authenticity	The accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs.
36906109	Distance Decay	The effects of distance interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction.
36906110	Time-space Compression	A term associated with the work of David Harvey that refers to the socail and physiological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity.
36906111	Reterritiorialization	With respect to popular culture, when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own.
36906112	Cultural Landscape	The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.
36906113	Placelessness	Defined by the geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.
36906114	Global-local Continuum	The notion that what happens at a global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vice versa.
36906115	Glocalization	The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes.
36906116	Folk-housing Region	A region in which the housing stock prodominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area.
36906117	Diffusion Routes	The spacial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spreads.