Culture Review Flashcards
Folk culture
Small incorporates homogenous population rural and rarely changes
Popular culture
Large incorporates heterogenous population urban and always changes
Local culture
Customs in a particular place
Material culture
Stuff in a culture that you can touch
Non material culture
Stuff in a culture that you can’t touch like values and practices
Hierarchal diffusion
Diffusion from big place to big place
Hearth
Birthplace
Assimilation
Loss of identity
Cultural relativism
No culture is over another
Custom
Distinguishing practice
Cultural appropriation
Culture adopts customs from another place
Commodification
Giving monetary value to something
Neolocalism
To reinvigorate a culture
Ethnic neighborhood
Neighborhood of local culture in the middle of a big city
Authenticity
Accuracy keeping a culture true to itself
Distance decay
The farther you get the less affected you are
Reterritorialization
Making a piece of popular culture your own
Time space compression
Connectedness in a culture
Cultural landscape
Visible footprints a culture leaves on a landscape
Placeless ness
Loss of uniqueness
Global local continuum
Something that happens globally affects us locally
Glocalization
Something local affects people on a global scale
Space
Social relations stretched out
Place
Uniqueness of a location
Sense of place
Emotional attachment to a place
Learned culture
Not inherited or instinctive
Universal culture
Every person has a culture
Unique culture
No two cultures are the same
Integrative culture
A change in one culture trait affects the rest
Dynamic culture
Some change faster than others but none are static
Symbolic
Passed through generations
How are local cultures sustained
Customs and ethnic neighborhoods
Examples of neolocalism
Local music and heirloom farming
Examples of cultural appropriation
Waxahachie mascot and symbols
Examples of reterritorialization
Spanish conquered Aztecs and replaced all of their culture
Assimilation examples
Immigrants adopt new country’s culture
Culture
The beliefs and actions that define a group of peoples way of life