vocab unit 2
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30543376 | relocation diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another. | |
30543377 | expansion diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. | |
30543378 | diffusion | the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another | |
30543379 | menifacts | the central, enduring elements of a culture expresing its values and beliefs,including language,religion,folklore,artistic traditions, and the like. elements in the ideological subsystem of culture | |
30543380 | sociofacts | The institutions and links between individuals and groups that unite a culture, including family structure and political, educational and religious institutions. | |
30543381 | multilinear evolution | developed by julian steward to explain cultural similarities among widely seperated peoples existing in similar enviroments but who could nothave benefited from shared experiences, borrowed ideas, or diffused technology | |
30543382 | cultural hearth | Locations on earth's surface where specific cultures first arose. | |
30543383 | enviromental determinism | human behavior and potential is based on enviromental conditions | |
30543384 | cultural realm | The combination of the cultural traits that is in a group that spreads over an area. | |
30543385 | possibilism | The theory that the physical environment 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. | |
30543386 | cultural traits | a particular group's individual skills, customs, and ways of doing things | |
30543787 | spatial interaction | the movement of people, goods and ideas within and across geographic space | |
30543788 | friction of distance | the increase in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance | |
30543789 | distance decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | |
30543790 | mobility | the ability to move easily from place to place | |
30543791 | movement bias | any aggregate control on or regularity of movement of people, commodities, or communication | |
30543792 | personal space | the surrounding area over which a person makes some claim to privacy | |
30543793 | personal communication field | an area defined by the distrubution of an individual's short-range informal communications. the size and shape of the field are defined by work, recreation, school, and other, regular contacts andare affected by age, sex, employment, and other personal charectoristics | |
30543794 | critical distance | the distance beyond which cost, effort, and/or means play a determining role in the willingness of the people to travel | |
30543795 | awareness space | locations or places about which an individual has knoweledge even without visiting all of them | |
30543796 | place perception | the acquisition of information about a place or thing through sensory means; the subjective organazation and interpretation of acquired information in light of cultural attitudes and individual prefrences or experiences |