Foundations of Culture & Identity
Clothing, music, language, and celebrations are examples of this visible level of culture.
What is surface culture?
The Tigris-Euphrates River Valley, where farming techniques and writing first developed before spreading outward, is an example of one of these.
What is a Cultural Hearth?
This term describes any kind of god, goddess, or Supreme Being worshiped within a belief system.
What is a deity?
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all share this core belief in only ONE God.
What is Monotheism?
The very first step of the 5 As of Geographic Inquiry.
What is Ask?
The unique set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, memories, and values that make up who you are.
What is identity?
When millions of Italian immigrants moved to New York in the 1900s, bringing their traditional recipes directly with them, they demonstrated this type of diffusion.
What is Relocation Diffusion?
The cross, the Star of David, and the Crescent and Star are examples of these objects or images that represent religious ideas.
What is a symbol?
While polytheism is the belief in multiple gods, this term describes the belief that God does NOT exist.
What is atheism?
Elections in the United States that take place halfway through a President's 4-year term.
What are midterm elections?
learning styles, concepts of time, values, religion, etiquette, gender roles are examples of this level of culture.
What is subsurface culture?
When a dance trend starts on TikTok and rapidly spreads from student to student across a lunchroom, it is this type of diffusion.
What is Contagious Diffusion?
The holy writings or sacred texts of a religion that contain its core teachings, stories, and laws.
What is scripture?
The belief system holding that natural objects like trees, mountains, rivers, and animals all possess spirits or a life force.
What is animism?
During this step of Geographic Inquiry, a geographer gathers maps, statistics, field notes, and data from reliable sources.
What is Acquire?
This process occurs when a minority group adopts the culture of a dominant social group, often through social pressure or force.
What is assimilation?
Fashion trends that start with top designers in Paris and slowly trickle down to local mall stores are an example of this authority-based diffusion.
What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
A branch or smaller group within a larger religion that shares core beliefs but may practice different traditions or worship styles.
What is a denomination?
Unlike an atheist, someone with this worldview believes it is impossible to know for sure whether God exists.
What is Agnosticism?
Midterm elections are especially critical because they determine which political party controls these two houses of Congress.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
This describes the increasing interconnectedness and integration of economies, cultures, and populations worldwide.
What is globalization?
Fast-food restaurants in India replacing beef burgers with potato-based veggie burgers to fit local customs is an example of this type of diffusion.
What is Stimulus Diffusion?
Something that is holy, deeply respected, and connected to a spiritual belief.
What is sacred?
In this spiritual tradition, specific individuals called shamans connect the physical and spirit worlds to heal the sick and communicate with spirits.
What is Shamanism?
The complete, sequential order of all 5 steps in the Geographic Inquiry process.
What are Ask, Acquire, Analyze, Answer, and Act?