Ch. 4 Culture/Folk v. Popular Culture

13457953	Cargo Cult Pilgrimage	Cargo Cult's believe western goods have been traded to them by ancestral spirits. It takes place in Melanesia and is important HG concept because it's a big religious movement by a large number of people.
14816825	Custom	A representative act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group. A habit that a group has widely adopted.
14816826	Taboo	A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.
14821133	Acculturation	The exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact.
14821533	Assimilation	The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
14935756	Folk House	houses that reflect cultural heritage, current fashion, functional needs, and the impact of environment. The form of each house is related in part to environmental as well as social conditions.
14935757	Folk Songs	composed anonymously and transmitted orally. A song that is derived from events in daily life that are familiar to the majority of the people; songs that tell a story or convey information about daily activities such as farming, life cycle events, or mysterious events such as strorms and earthquakes.
15009061	Cultural ecology	The study of how human society has adapted to enviromental challenges.
15009207	Cultural identity	Is the way people catogorize there culture, sometimes by the way they dress and what they eat ect.
15079668	Cultural Diffusion	The spreading of cultural traits from one society to another
15079669	Innovation Adoption	The diffusion of new ideas
15084549	Culture Trait	A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban.
15084550	Culture Complex	A related set of culture traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils.
15097736	Cultural Adaptation	Adjusting a translation based on the cultural environment of the target language.
15097737	Cultural core/periphery pattern	The core-periphery idea that the core houses main economic power of region and the outlying region or periphery houses lesser economic ties.
15104010	Toponymy	The place name of a region or language. The study of such place names
15104011	Traditional Architecture	traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places
15106099	Folklore	The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally.
15106100	Material Culture	The physical objects created by a culture; the buildings, tools, and other artifacts created by the members of a society
15125496	Economic Determinism	The doctrine that all social, cultural, political, and intellectual forms are determined by or result from such economic factors as the quality of natural resources , productive capability, technological development, or the distribution of wealth.
15125497	Society	An organized group of of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
15127104	Habit	A repetitive act that a particular individual performs
15127105	Architectural Form	The look of housing, effected by the available materials,the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time.
15140256	Culture Hearth	Place of origin of a major culture
15140257	Culture System	A collection of interacting elements taken together shape a group's collective identity. Includes traits, territorial affiliation, shared history, and more complex elements, like language
15166273	Folk Culture	Local life style, traditional culture in a small area
15166274	Folk Food	Food eaten in a special way of a small area, usually something in the area
15261969	Maladaptation	poor or inadequate adaptation that occurs when a group pursues an adaptive strategy that, in the short run, fails to provide the necessities of life or, in the long run, destroys the environment that nourishes it
15261970	Sequent Occupance	succeeding stages of human inhabitation over time on one site
15314153	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.
15314154	cultural determinism	The belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels.
15314155	transculturation	The exchange and mixture of different cultures around the world.
15314156	environmental determinism	A now outdated theory that the environment is the sole determining factor in how a society develops. It is the opposite of possibilism.
15314157	globalization	An action or process that takes place on a world-wide scale.
15314158	cultural leg	A slower rate of change in a society as compared with others; the failure of the nonmaterial culture to keep up with developments in the material culture.
15555390	non-material culture	A component of cultre that consists of the intangible or abstract human creations of society that influence people's behavior (such as taboos, ideas about right & wrong, etc).
15555391	popular culture	Culture that is a product of more developed countries (large, heterogeneous societies); diffuses rapidly through modern communication systems and creates a more uniform landscape.
15555392	cultural landscape	The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. In other words, it is the man-made or built environment.
15555393	cultural realm	The entire region that displays the characteristics of a culture. For example, Latin America is a cultural realm because the entire region speaks a language based on Latin (i.e., the Romance languages).
15555394	culture	The body of customary beliefs, material traits (clothing, housing, food), and social forms that make up the distinct traditions of a group of people.
15555395	culture regions	A portion of the Earth's surface occupied by a population sharing recognizable and distinctive cultural characteristics.
15555396	cultural perception	The varying attitudes and ideas that culture groups have regarding how space, place, and territory are identified and used.
15555397	cultural environment	An environment that has developed as a result of a specific culture group's economic and social activities.