Ch. 4 Vocab.
Cultures
Ch. 5 Vocab.
Identity
Key Concepts
100
What is assimilation?
a process where people lose originally differentiating traits when they come in contact with another society
100
How do cultural traits diffuse?
Contagious diffusion and hierarchical diffusion
100
What is the term frequently used in order to distinguish ourselves from the other?
What is identifying agents
100
What is ethnicity?
Ethnicity is the affliction/identity of a group bonded by a common ancestry and culture
100
In what country does dowry deaths impact families greatly?
What is India
200
What are three of the four types of culture?
Folk, Pop, Local, Material
200
How do local cultures maintain their customs?
By keeping other cultures out and keeping their culture in
200
What does it mean to have a sense of place?
Sense of Place is a state of mind derived through the infusion of a place with meaning and emotion by remembering events that occurred in that place
200
What city in the US has the highest rate of residential segregation for African-Americans?
What is Milwaukee, Wisconsin
200
How does the Guinness and Irish Pub Company represent authenticity?
The themed Irish Pub would display a traditional Irish Pub where tourists would encounter the design of the the mystic or savage images.
300
What is the difference between time space compression and distance decay?
Distance decay is the effects of distance and interaction, usually the farther the distance the less interaction, while time space compression explains how quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are found.
300
What is neolocalism?
Seeking out the regional culture and reinvigorating it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world.
300
How do you define a place?
A place is the 4th theme defined by uniqueness of a location.
300
What do space and place have to do with identity?
We infuse places with meaning and memories so our sense of place becomes part of our identity
300
What housing type is most common in Minnesota?
What is New England
400
What is reterritorialization?
Reterritorialization is when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves making it suit their need.
400
What are the three traditional types of american houses?
What is the New england, mid-atlantic, and southern tidewater
400
What is the difference between gendered and gender?
Gender is the social differences between men and women by the biological standpoint, while gendered refers to places designated for men or women
400
Which theory had a great impact on the GLBT society?
What is Queer theory
400
In what point of time in US history has America been gendered?
What is the 1960s
500
Give and example of folk, popular, local, and material culture
Folk encompasses traits such as dress models, dwellings, traditions and institutions of usually small traditional communities. Popular culture encompasses dress, diet and music based on today’s ever changing urban based culture, usually media based. Local culture is a group of people in a particular place or community who see themselves as a collective, and try to use such traits to distinguish uniqueness. Material culture is the art, housing clothes sports, and foods or other such traits that construct a group of people.
500
What term’s notion emphasizes that what happens at one scale is not independent of what happens at the other scale.
What is Global-local Continuum
500
What is residential segregation?
Residential segregation is the degree to which two groups live seperate from each other in different urban environments.
500
What term is defined as a dramatic increase in Hispanic population in a given neighborhood?
What is Barrioization
500
Where in the world does a power relationship subjugate certain groups of people?
What is Northern Ireland, women in Subsaharan Africa, and India