3.1-3.2 Flashcards
All of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs,and objects
Culture
Types of elements visible and invisible
Cultural Traits
A series of interrelated traits
Cultural complex
The area a unique culture or specific trait developes
Culture Hearths
Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture
Taboos
The belief and practices of small,homogeneous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are relatively isolated and slow to change
Folk culture
Used to encompass all three cultural designations
Traditional culture
When members of an ethnic group reside in their ancestral lands, and typically passes unique cultural traits, such as speaking their own language
Indigenous culture
Refers to the increased integration of the world economy since the 1970s
Globalization
When cultural traits spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups
Popular culture
when elements quickly get adopted world wide
Global culture
Material culture/tangible things
Ex. art,clothing,food, music,sports,and houses
Artifacts
Consists of tangible things, or those who can be experienced by the senses
Material culture
non-material culture/no physical presence
ex.beliefs, values,practices,and aesthetics
Mentifacts
consists of non-tangible things or those not having a physical presence.
non-material culture
Ways people organize their society and relate to one another
ex. family structure, religion, education,politics
Sociofacts
When places have homogenity.Compareable incomes, a common American Culture,similar architecture,related socioeconomic status, and other related factors
placelessness
The visible reflection of a culture or a built environment
Cultural landscape
The physical artifacts that humans have created and form parts of the landscape
Built environment
Type of building stlye that reflects a local culture’s history, beliefs, values, and community adoptations
traditional architecture
Includes more use of curves, bright colors,and large glass atriums that bring light into spaces
postmodern architecture
an extension of postmodern architecture. This style uses multiple advances to create buildings that rotate, curve, and stretch the limits of the sky
Contemporary architecture
membership within a group of people who have common experiences and share similar characteristics such as ancestry, language,customs, and history
ethnicity
clusters of people of the same culture
ethnic enclaves
regions determined based on characteristics such a as religion, language and ethnicity
cultural regions
larger areas that include several regions
cultural realms
specific place and natural features that have religious significance.
sacred place
occurs when one group of people is dispersed to various locatons
Diaspora
the first group to establish cultural and religious customs
charter group
when their cultural imprint revolves around housing types and agricultural dwellings that reflect their heritage. Mostly in rural areas and formed by ethnic concentrations
ethnic islands
A process when ethnic groups move in and out of neighborhoods and create new cultural imprints on the landscape.
sequent occupancy
the process of re-embracing the uniqueness and authenticity of a place
neolocalism
