APHUG Unit3 Flashcards
Culture?
All of a groups learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects
Visible forces
A cultures actions, possessions, and influence on the landscape.
Invisible forces
Invisible parts of a culture. Eg, guiding being through shared belief, systems, customs, and traditions
Cultural Traits?
Visible and invisible elements of a culture.
Cultural Complex?
Series of interrelated cultural traits
Ways that one generation passes its culture to the next.
Imitation, Informal Instruction, Formal Instruction
Imitation?
Copying, eg learning a language by repeating sounds from a person
Informal Instruction?
Learning from an informal surrounding, eg a parent reminding a child to say “please”
Formal Instruction?
Learning from an instructive institute, eg learning history in school
Cultural Hearth
Area where a unique culture or a specific trait develops.
Cultural Diffusion
The spread of a culture to different places.
Taboos?
Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture.
Traditional culture?
Older culture. Former popular culture. Encompasses all 3, traditional, folk, and indigenous cultures.
Folk Culture?
Beliefs and practices of small, homogeneous groups of people. Often living in rural areas that are isolated and slow to change.
What type of culture demonstrates diverse ways that people adapt to the environment?
Folk Culture, eg people making shelters out of available convenient resources.
Indigenous Culture?
Members of a ethnic group residing in their ancestral lands possessing unique cultural traits like their own language.
Space-Time Compression?
Concept of improvements in transportation and communication shortening the time required for movement, trade or other forms of interaction between two places.
What has space time compression accelerated around the world?
Cultural Change
Globalization?
Increased integration of the world economy since the 1970s
Popular culture?
Fast spreading, widely adopted and widely spread contemporary culture.
Popular culture begins in _____ areas and diffuse quickly through globalization processes like the media and the internet.
urban
Global Culture?
Elements of popular culture adopted worldwide. (E.g Anime)
Popular culture promotes ______ in beliefs, values, and the cultural landscape across many places
uniformity (similarity)
Cultural Landscape? (AKA. Built Environment)
Modification of the environment by a group, visible reflection of said groups cultural beliefs and values. (E.g Church)
Popular culture emphasizes trying what is _______, rather than preserving what is traditional.
new
Older generations or those following a folk culture resist the adoption of _______ cultural traits, by preserving traditional language, religions, values, and foods AKA preserving what they have.
Popular
While traditional cultures can prevent adoption of popular culture they are not successful in keeping their ______ cultures from changing, especially among young people of their society.
traditional
Horizontal Diversity?
Each traditional culture being unique from other cultural groups yet people within that culture are very HOMOGENEOUS.
What diversity is traditional culture?
Horizontal diversity.
Vertical Diversity?
Modern urban societies are usually heterogenous within the society and usually contain many multiethnic neighborhoods, however on a global scale popular cultures are relatively similar. (A.K.A different within the city scale society)
Popular cultures exhibit what diversity?
Vertical
Artifacts?
Things comprising the material culture, which consists of tangible things, or those which can be experienced by the senses. (E.g. art clothing food)
The English Language is a _____ artifact.
Shared, because it is important within popular global culture.
Mentifacts?
Things comprising a groups nonmaterisl culture, consist of intangible concepts, or those without a physical presence. (E.g beliefs, values, practices)
The belief in Jesus within Judaism and Christianity is an example of a _______ mentifact.
Shared, because they both believe in Jesus, belief being a mentifact.
Sociofacts?
The ways people organize their society and relate to one another. AKA SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS (E.g families, governments, sports teams, religious organizations, education systems)
Families being the foundation of many societies across the globe is an example of a _______ sociofact.
Shared, because it is a social construct and the foundation of “MANY” societies across the globe.
Placelessness?
Phenomenon where many modern cultural landscapes exhibit a great deal of homogeneity.
The boundaries of a region represent the _________ on the environment.
human imprint
Cultural landscape encompasses any human __________ to the landscape, whether a skyscraper or a cleared field.
alteration
Built environment?
Physical artifacts humans have created that form part of the landscape. (E.g. buildings roads, signs, and fences)
Traditional Architecture?
Architecture reflecting a local cultures history, beliefs, values and community adaptations to the environment usually utilizing locally available materials. (E.g. mud homes in Nepal)
Postmodern architecture?
Architecture developed after the 1960s, moves away from boxy, concrete, brick structures towards tall high rise structures made from steel and glass. Brighter colors and more curved. (E.g. skyscrapers)
Contemporary Architecture.
Architecture emerging in the 21st century, extension of postmodern architecture. Used multiple advances to create rotating, curving, height paradigm reestablishing buildings. Towering height and skylines represent businesses and a cities wealth and power. Criticized for lack of approachable human scale interaction.