Cultural Patterns

Question 1

Artifacts

Answer 1

An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.

Question 2

Blue Laws

Answer 2

A law prohibiting certain activities, such as shopping, on a Sunday.

Question 3

Built Environment

Answer 3

Man-made structures, features, and facilities viewed collectively as an environment in which people live and work.

Question 4

Centrifugal Forces

Answer 4

Forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state. Centrifugal forces originate in the same dimensions as centripetal forces, but the forces pull the population apart instead of bringing it together.

Question 5

Centripetal Forces

Answer 5

Forces that unify a state (provide stability, strengthen, bind together, create solidarity).

Question 6

Charter Group

Answer 6

Groups that are usually distinguished by ethnic group and ethnic identity and those that have played a pioneering role in the opening and development of new territories and immigrant society.

Question 7

Contemporary Architecture

Answer 7

Refers to building and design styles and techniques that are characteristics of a society or a region in the current time period.

Question 8

Cultural Appropriation

Answer 8

The unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society.

Question 9

Cultural Landscape

Answer 9

Cultural attributes of an area often used to describe a place.

Question 10

Cultural Patterns

Answer 10

The similar behaviors within similar situations we witness due to shared beliefs, values, norms and social practices that are steady over time.

Question 11

Cultural Realms

Answer 11

A geographical region where cultural traits maintain homogeneity.

Question 12

Cultural Regions

Answer 12

Refers to a geography with one relatively homogeneous human activity or complex of activities.

Question 13

Cultural Relativism

Answer 13

The idea that a person’s beliefs and practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture

Question 14

Culture

Answer 14

All of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects. Simply put, a way of life.

Question 15

Culture Traits

Answer 15

A single attribute of a culture.

Question 16

Culture Complex

Answer 16

Interrelated cultural traits with shared values, beliefs, behaviors, and artifacts.

Question 17

Culture Hearth

Answer 17

An area where civilization first began. It radiates the customs, innovations, and ideologies that transformed the world.

Question 18

Diaspora

Answer 18

The dispersion of any people from their original homeland.

Question 19

Diffusion

Answer 19

The spread of people, things, ideas, cultural practices, disease, technology, weather, and. more from place to place.

Question 20

Ethnic Enclaves

Answer 20

A geographical area where a particular ethnic group is spatially clustered and socially and economically distinct from the majority group.

Question 21

Ethnic Islands

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A small rural area settled by a single, distinctive ethnic group that placed its imprint on the landscape.

Question 22

Ethnicity

Answer 22

The fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.

Question 23

Ethnocentrism

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The attitude that one’s own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others.

Question 24

Folk Culture

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The beliefs and practices of small, homogenous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are isolated and slow to change.

Question 25

Fundamentalism

Answer 25

Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion.

Question 26

Global Culture

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The sum total of knowledge, attitudes and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.

Question 27

Glocalization

Answer 27

The modification of popular goods for local markets.

Question 28

Indigenous Culture

Answer 28

A culture group that constitutes the original inhabitants of a territory, distinct from the dominant national culture, which is often derived from colonial occupation.

Question 29

Material Culture

Answer 29

Any element of culture that can be perceived with the five senses; artifacts.

Question 30

Mentifacts

Answer 30

Nonmaterial culture that has no physical presence. Includes beliefs, values, practices, and aesthetics.

Question 31

Nationality

Answer 31

Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.