ap Flashcards

3978995822	tenements	crowded apartments (poorly equip)	0
3978995823	redlining	policy to hand out loans (illegal)	1
3978995824	blockbusting	segregating communities	2
3978995825	counter urbanization	more people moving to the country (sprawling; spreading out)	3
3978995826	culture	specialize behavioral patterns, understandings, adaptations, and social systems that summarize a group of people's learned ways of life	4
3981140444	culture complex	individual cultural traits that are functionally interrelated ( american football-- sports culture)	5
3981140445	culture region	portion of the earth's surface occupied by populations sharing recognizable distinctive cultural characteristics (economic type)	6
3981140446	culture realm	a set of cultural regions showing related cultural complexes and landscapes	7
3981140447	custom	frequent repetition of an act until it becomes characteristics of a group of people	8
3981140448	habit	repetitive act performed by an individual	9
3981140449	folk culture	traditionally practiced by a small homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation	10
3981140450	pop culture	found in large heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in person characteristics	11
3981140451	material culture	the physical objects produced by a culture in order to meet its material needs:food, clothing, shelter, arts, and recreation	12
3981140452	wide distribution	differences from place to place, uncommon, more likely differences at one place over time	13
3981140453	pollution	waste from generation and discarded products	14
3981140454	taboo	a restriction on behavior imposed by social customs	15
3981140455	assimilation	when two cultures meet and there's a total absorption of minority culture	16
3981140456	acculturation	minority culture begins to blend with the majority	17
3981140457	maladaptive diffusion	not practical diffusion	18
3981140458	sequent occupancy	theory that overtimed different people conquer an area	19
3981140459	political ecology	interaction between the government and economy	20
3981140460	cultural convergence	when two cultural groups interact with eachother	21
3981140461	cultural divergence	cultures isolate themselves from each other	22
3981140462	transculturation	equal sharing of cultural traits	23
3981140463	ethnocentrism	view of the world from your ethnicity	24
3981140464	dialect	local form of a language	25
3981140465	ideograms	symbols represent an idea or concept rather than a specific sound (used in china and east asian countries)	26
3981140466	linguna franca	a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages	27
3981140467	pidgin	a form of speech that adopts simplified grammar and limited vocabulary from a linguna franca (speakers of two different languages)	28
3996989024	creole	a language that results from the mixing if a colonize's language with an indigenous language	29