Geographic concept
The distance is more accessible
What is distance decay?
The pattern in which humans are spread out on Earths surface
Successive societies will leave their cultural imprints
What is sequence occupance?
Cultural trait spreads from one place to another over time
What is diffusion?
A politically organized independent territory with a government, defined borders, and a permanent population
What is a state?
Technology makes it easier to travel and communicate
What is time space compression
Average number of people per arable land. Good indicator of the pressure between how the population experts on agriculture.
What is physiological density?
Natural landscape that's modified by humans, reflecting their cultural beliefs and values
What is cultural landscape?
Culture spreads outward from where it originated as new people adopt the trait
What is expansion diffusion?
The concept of groups/individuals claiming and controlling a specific geographic area, establishing boundaries, and asserting power, fundamental to understanding states, sovereignty, identity, and conflicts over resources, influencing everything from national borders (like exclaves) to local governance and resource control.
What is territoriiality?
-Physical environment controls humans action and culture
-Humans don't control the society
What is environmental determinism?
Difference between birth deaths and live births.
What is the rate of natural increase?
Communities of people with shared ethnicity outside their area and origin
What is ethnic enclaves?
Pidgin language that develops into a new combined language with native speakers
Consists of a population that shares a cultural or ethnic background but lives in more than one country
What is a multi-state nation?
-The environment puts limits on humans, however, people can choose what to do
-Humans can control the society
What is environmental possibilism?
Stabilized population, high birth and death rates
What is the first stage of the demographic transition model?
A process of making a place or cultural groups get together to make/plan in public
What is place-making
The trend towards increased cultural and economic connectedness between people,places,and organization.
What is globalization?
Drawn over existing and accepted borders by an outside or conquering force
(The Berlin conference)
What is a superimposed boundary?
Views the global economy as one interconnected system, dividing the world into Core, Semi-Periphery, and Periphery nations based on their role in a capitalist world economy.
What is the world system theory?
The tendency to evaluate other groups according to percieved ideas.
What is ethnocentrism?
This force results in multiple ethnic groups to want independence
What is centrifugal force?
Type of acculturation in which traits from two or more cultures blend to form a new custom, idea, value, or practice
What is syncretism?
Redistricting for a political advantage-to maintain or extend their power
What is gerrymandering?