Chapter 5

Question 1

Actor network theory

Answer 1

A theory that views the world as composed of heterogenous things, including humans and nonhumans and objects.

Question 2

Affect

Answer 2

Emotions that are embodied reactions to the social and physical environment and that also have the power to result in or enable action.

Question 3

Allophone

Answer 3

A person whose mother tongue is neither English nor French.

Question 4

Anglophone

Answer 4

A person whose mother tongue is English.

Question 5

Cultural complex

Answer 5

Combination of traits characteristic of a particular group.

Question 6

Cultural nationalism

Answer 6

An effort to protect regional and national cultures from the homogenizing impacts of globalization.

Question 7

Cultural hearth

Answer 7

The geographical origin or source of innovations, ideas, or ideologies which was coined by Carl Sauer.

Question 8

Cultural geography

Answer 8

Study of the ways in which space, place, and landscape shape culture at the same time that culture shapes space, place, and landscape.

Question 9

Cultural landscape

Answer 9

A characteristic and tangible outcome of the complex interactions between a human group and a natural environment.

Question 10

Cultural region

Answer 10

Area where certain cultural practices, beliefs, or values are practiced by more or less the majority of the inhabitants.

Question 11

Cultural system

Answer 11

A collection of interacting elements that, taken together, shape a group’s collective identity.

Question 12

Ethnicity

Answer 12

A socially created system of rules about who belongs and who does not belong to a particular group, based on actual or perceived commonality.

Question 13

Gender

Answer 13

Category reflecting the social differences between men and women rather than the anatomical differences that are related to sex.

Question 14

Dialects

Answer 14

Regional variations from standard language, in terms of accent, vocabulary, and grammar.

Question 15

Hybridity

Answer 15

A term expressing the possibility that identities are not fixed, but are flexible and often dependent on the context.

Question 16

Francophone

Answer 16

A person whose mother tongue is French.

Question 17

Diaspora

Answer 17

A spatial dispersion of a previously homogenous group.

Question 19

Islamism

Answer 19

An anticolonial, anti-imperial political movement that resists core, especially Western, forces of globalization like namely modernization and secularization.

Question 20

Materialism

Answer 20

A school of thought that emphasizes that the material world, its objects and nonhuman identities, is at least partly separate from humans and possesses the power to affect humans.

Question 21

Culture

Answer 21

A shared set of meanings that are lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life.

Question 22

Non-representational theory

Answer 22

A theory that understands human life as a process that is always unfolding, always becoming something different, even if only slightly so.

Question 23

Isolate

Answer 23

A language that has no known relationship with any other and cannot be assigned to a language family.

Question 24

Islam

Answer 24

An Arabic term that means submission, specifically submission to God’s will.

Question 25

World music

Answer 25

The musical genre defined largely by the surge of non-English language recordings released in USA and UK during 1980s.

Question 26

Language branch

Answer 26

A collection of languages that possess a definite common origin but has split into individual languages.

Question 27

Race

Answer 27

A problematic classification of human beings based on skin colour and other physical characteristics.

Question 28

Racialization

Answer 28

The practice of creating unequal castes based on the norm of whiteness.

Question 29

Language

Answer 29

A means of communicating ideas or feelings by means of a conventionalized system of signs, gestures, marks, or articulate vocal sounds.

Question 30

Mother tongue

Answer 30

The first language learned at home in childhood and still understood by the individual at the time of the census, as defined by Statistics Canada.

Question 31

Language group

Answer 31

A collection of several individual languages that are part of a language branch, share a common origin, and have similar grammar and vocabulary.

Question 32

Language family

Answer 32

A collection of individual languages believed to be related in their prehistoric origin.

Question 33

Genres de vie or ways of living.

Answer 33

A functionally organized way of life characteristic of a particular culture group.

Question 34

Sexuality

Answer 34

A set of practices and identities that a given culture considers related to each other and to those things it considers sexual acts and desires.

Question 35

Official languages

Answer 35

Languages in Canada English, and French, in which the government has a legal obligation to conduct its affairs and in which the public has the right to receive federal services.

Question 36

Historical geography

Answer 36

Study of the geography of the past.

Question 37

Muslim

Answer 37

A member of the Islamic community of believers, whose duty is obedience and submission to the will of God.

Question 38

Cultural trait

Answer 38

A single aspect of the complex or routine practices that constitute a particular cultural group.

Question 39

Religion

Answer 39

Belief system and a set of practices that recognize the existence of a power higher than humans.

Question 40

Rites of passage

Answer 40

The acts, customs, practices, or procedures that recognize key transitions in human life.

Question 41

Popular culture

Answer 41

The practices and meaning systems produced by large groups of people who norms and tastes are often heterogenous and change frequently, often in respond to commercial products.

Question 51

Folk culture

Answer 51

Traditional practices of small groups, especially rural people with a simple lifestyle compared to modern urban people, who are seen as homogenous in their belief systems and practices.