3.1 Introduction to Culture
Shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by the members of a society that are not the result of biological inheritance
Culture
The combination of physical features, agricultural and industrial practices, religion and linguistic characteristics, sequent occupancy, traditional and post modern architecture, and land use pattern.
Cultural Landscape
Term used to connote attachment to and comfort in a particular place with a strong identity that is deeply felt by inhabitants
sense of place
Process by which a feature spreads across a space
Diffusion
language of international communication, mutually by people who speak different languages
Lingua Franca
A group of people who share a common cultural trait
Ethnicity
The combined imprint on an area when it has been inhabited by a succession of cultures
Sequent Occupance
How a culture makes a place fit their identity by shaping the landscape to show what they believe and value
Place making
Type of cultural diffusion when an innovation or idea spreads by the actual movement of individuals who have adopted the idea and carry it to a new place
relocation diffusion
process by which elements of different cultures are blended together to create a new culture
creolization
Historical classification that is used to categorize human population with shared physical traits
The original settlers of an area who have retained their culture apart from the colonizers
Indigenous community
forces that unite a country
Centripetal Forces
type of cultural diffusion when an innovation or idea develops in a source area and remains strong there while also spreading outward the innovation or idea moves through fixed populations. Also, list the three subgroups.
Expansion diffusion
Contagious, hierarchical, stimulus
policy of acquiring control over another country, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it economically
Colonialism
Judging another culture based on the values of one's own culture
Ethnocentrism
An area within a city occupied by a distinctive minority culture
Ethnic Neighborhood
Forces that divide a country
Centrifugal
spread of an idea from person or nodes of authority or power to other person or places
Hierarchical diffusion
Dominance of one culture over another
cultural imperialism
The idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture rather than be judged against the criteria of another
Cultural Relativism
Learned behaviors that are deemed appropriate to gender as determined by cultural norms
Gender role
a single attribute of a culture such as food preferences, architecture, and land use.
culture trait
Spread of an underlying principle even though a characteristic itself apparently fails to diffuse. A small portion of the population adopts an idea or modifies it.
Stimulus diffusion
process of increased interconnections among countries most notably in the area of economics, politics, or culture
globalization