Unit 1
Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.Often At a Global Scale
What is a Pandemic?
A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others.
What is Local Culture?
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
What is a Nation State?
A grant or contribution of money, especially one made by a government in support of an undertaking or the upkeep of a thing
What are Subsidies?
A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.
What is Central Place Theory?
unknown or unexplored territory
What is Terra Incognita?
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
What is assimilation?
the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648
What is the peace of Westphalia?
Service sector industries that require a high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill. Examples include scientific research and high-level management.
What is the Quinary Sector?
the country's nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement
What is Rank-Size Rule?
The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
What is Stimulus Diffusion?
What is Commodification?
The process through which something is given monetary value; occurs when a good or idea that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that can be traded in a market economy.
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is Imperialism?
Farming methods that preserve long-term productivity of land and minimize pollution, typically by rotating soil- restoring crops with cash crops and reducing in-puts of fertilizer and pesticides.
What is Sustainable Agriculture?
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood
What is Blockbusting?
the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
What is sequent occupance?
When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary
What is a pidgin Language?
a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals (e.g., Israel or Kashmir today; Eastern Europe during the Cold War,...).
What is a shatterbelt?
Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution
What is Vertical Integration?
A discriminatory real estate practice in North America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods. The practice derived its name from the red lines depicted on cadastral maps used by real estate agents and developers. Today, redlining is officially illegal.
What is Redlining?
A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.
What is Environmental Determinism?
The traditional Chinese and Korean practice of designing buildings in accordance with the principles of cosmic harmony and discord that supposedly course through the local topography.
What is Geomancy?
an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it
What is an Enclave?
A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.
What is Shifting Cultivation?
A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area.
What is Gentrification?