AP HUG: Unit 4 Flashcards
Traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas
Folk Culture
Found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
Popular culture
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
Taboo
when people move from their original location to another and bring their innovations with them
Relocation diffusion
innovations spread to new places while staying strong in their original locations
Expansion Diffusion
an idea being spread rapidly throughout the population; all places and individuals in the region are affected.
Contagious Diffusion
a cultural trend is spread from one segment of society to another in a pattern
Hierarchical Diffusion
The spread of underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected
Stimulus Diffusion
An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area.
Cultural Landscape
How long it takes to get to somewhere back then and how it is now
Space-time Compression
An environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration
Intervening Obstacle
An area that people believe exists as part of their cultural identity
Vernacular Region
The combing of elements of 2 groups into a new culture feature
Syncretism
Physical environment caused social development
Environmental Determinism
Social development caused physical environment
Possibilism