AP Flashcards

7914059345	Habit vs custom	Self vs society	0
7914059346	pop culture	modern popular culture transmitted via mass media and aimed particularly at younger people	1
7914059347	Folk Culture	traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas	2
7914059348	cultural diffusion	The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another	3
7914059349	material culture	the physical things created by members of a society	4
7914059350	non material culture	the beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values , of a group of people	5
7914059351	Taboos	A restriction on behavior imposed by a social custom.	6
7914059352	Social media	Electronic media that allows people with similar interests to participate in a social network	7
7914059353	cultural landscape	the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape	8
7914059354	Symbols	Terms, concepts, or items that represent specific meanings by accepted convention.	9
7914059355	cultural syncretism	The blending of elements of cultures; also refered to as hybridization or acculturation.	10
7914059356	built environment	part of the physical landscape that represents material culture; the landscape created by humans	11
7914059357	Postmodern	A view that social and cultural reality, as well as social science itself, is a human construction.	12
7914059358	green energy	renewable energy	13
7914059359	commercial buildings	A building or land intending to be used to commercialize	14
7914059360	relocation diffusion	the spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another	15
7914059361	folklore	The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally.	16
7914059362	Enclaves	Small territories located inside a larger country	17
7914059363	sequent occupance	cultural succession and its lasting imprint	18
7914059364	cultural globalization	worldwide spread of similar norms, values, and practices	19
7914059365	Cultural adaptation	the complex strategies human groups employ to live successfully as part of a natural system.	20
7914059366	Assimilation	Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas	21
7914059367	Acculturation (n)	The adoption of behaviors from a surrounding society	22