Chapter 4 Vocabulary
Chapter 5 Vocabulary
Diffusion
Culture
Grab Bag
100
The visible imprint of human activity or culture on a landscape.
What is the cultural landscape?
100
Social differences between men and women.(not anatomical or biological)
What is gender?
100
Explains how quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are through transportation and communication technologies.
What is time-space compression?
100
A _____ culture is a group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or community, and share experiences, customs, and traits.
What is local culture?
100
Loss of uniqueness of a place or cultural landscape.
What is placelessness?
200
The effects of distance on interaction.
What is distance decay?
200
Constructing an identity by defining the “other” and defining ourselves as “not the other.”
What is identifying against?
200
Pop. culture diffuses in a ______ fashion in the context of time-space compression, with diffusion happening most rapidly across the most compressed spaces.
What is hierarchical?
200
The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, etc created by a group of people.
What is material culture?
200
What happens at global scale directly affects local scale and vice versa.
What is global-local continuum?
300
Area where an idea or cultural trait originates.
What is the hearth?
300
Uniqueness of a location
What is place?
300
When cultures adopt customs/knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit.
What is cultural appropriation?
300
The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.
What is nonmaterial culture?
300
Cultural traits (dress, dwellings, traditions, institutions, etc) of usually small traditional communities.
What is folk culture?
400
cultural traits that identify and are part of today’s western societies
What is pop culture?
400
State of mind derived through infusion of a place with meaning or emotion.
What is sense of place?
400
Spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spread.
What is diffusion routes?
400
Practice routinely followed by a group of people.
What is a custom?
400
“How we make sense of ourselves” how people see themselves at different scales.
What is identity?
500
The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to uncertainty of the modern world.
What is neolocalism?
500
Affiliation or identity within a group bound by common ancestry and culture.
What is ethnicity?
500
Why has the pace of diffusion shrunken to days and sometimes even hours during the last century?
What is there are new technologies and transportation methods.
500
_____, ______, and ______ are the main diffusion paths of pop culture.
What is transportation, marketing, and communication networks?
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