Concepts of Culture
The social behavior and norms found in human societies
What is culture?
Communication, social categories, service, social behavior
What are some cultural differences?
Institutions, customs, skills, dress, tories, music, and way of life of a small, stable, close-knit, usually rural community, tradition controls it
What is folk culture?
Believing in and worship of a power, especially a personal God or gods
What is a religion?
The method of communication,it is spoken or written, and consists of words in a structured manner
What is a language?
Knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, hierarchies, religion, roles and material objects and possessions
What does culture refer to?
A type of geography that deals with the world's regions
What is regional geography?
Made of the physical, visible things, like musical instruments to furniture, tools, and buildings
What is material culture?
A large and fundamental division within a religion or anything in general
What is a branch?
An easier and simplified version of a language developed as a means of communication for people who don't speak the same official language
What is a pidgin language?
A word for people's way of living, or the way groups or people do things
What does it mean to be a culture?
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
What is relocation diffusion?
Characteristic acts, behavioral patterns, traditions, and conventions regulating social life
What are customs?
What religion does a synagogue belong to?
What is Judaism?
A language formed by many other languages for the sake of peoples' convenience
What is a creole language?
The identity or feeling of belonging to a group, and it is part of a person's self conception and self perception
What is cultural identity?
Used to identify the important types of regions based on a variety of criteria and aspects
What is regional classification?
A landscape containing various resources that the associated people define as heritage resources
What is an ethnographic landscape?
Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism
What are the 4 main religions on Earth?
One is fully developed, and one is not
What is the difference between a pidgin and creole language?
The symbols, language, norms, values, and artifacts of a culture
What are the five elements of culture?
Stimulus, contagious, hierarchical, and expansion diffusion
What are examples of expansion diffusion?
Provides better products, services, and consumer experiences for people
What is the importance of glocalization?
Shintoism and Buddhism
What are the main religions in Japan?
The branch of human geography that deals with the geographic distribution of languages
What is language geography?