Chapter 4: Culture Flashcards
The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and physiological characteristics of a group
Assimilation
The adoption of cultural traits, such as languages, by one group under the influence of another
Acculturation
The transformation of goods and services as well as ideas or other entities that normally may not be considered goods into a commodity
Commodification
Adjusting a translation based on the cultural environment of the target language
Cultural adaptation
The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation communication
Cultural convergence
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups
Folk culture
Place where an idea originates from
The region from which innovative ideas originate
Hearth
Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniquenessand to distinguish themselves from others
Local culture
The art, housing, slothimg, sports, dances, foods, an other similar items constructed or created by a group of people
Material culture
The seeking out if the regional culture and reinvigorating it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world
Neolocalism
Defined by geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of a place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next
Placelessness
With respect to popular culture, when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own
Reterritorialization
Cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures of approximately equal complexity and technological level come into close contact
Transculturation
