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Exam 2 Flashcards

Leisure's Anthropology, leisure's geography, leisure and technology, and popular culture

1
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What is culture?

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The distinct ways that people in different social groups live

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How are leisure and culture connected?

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Leisure impacts culture, and culture impacts leisure

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What are the characteristics of culture?

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Shared, learned, integrated, symbols

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How is the characteristic of “shared” defined? Example? Related Concept.

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Values and standards of behavior are held in common. Ideas, beliefs, values, and attitudes are all shared in a culture. EX: Football to Americans is different than football to Germans. American values are different than other cultures.

Related concept is subcultures based on leisure

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How is the characteristic of “learned” defined? Example? Related concept.

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We learn our culture by living. Someone has to teach us these values. EX: In some social groups, it is considered rude to be late to a party.

The related concept is Enculturation.

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What is enculturation?

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Process through which we learn what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior.

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How the characteristic of “Integrated” defined? Example?

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All parts of a culture are interrelated; I have nothing to do with it, but I’m still impacted. EX: When and where people take their summer vacations affects transportation, hospitality, and attraction services

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How is the characteristic of “symbol” defined? Example? Related concept.

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Culture “currency” is based on representation. Symbols mean and stand for something. EX: the scoring system for strikes and spares in bowling; pink for breast cancer awareness.

Related concept is culture change.

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What is innovation?

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Any new practice, tool, or principle that gains widespread acceptance. EX: Highways

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What is diffusion?

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The spread of customs from one culture to another. EX: McDonalds

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What is culture loss?

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Change resulting in the loss of a cultural tradition. EX: Loss of language

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What is acculturation?

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Exchange of cultural features as a result of prolonged contact between groups

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What are the four possible outcomes of acculturation?

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Assimilation, integration, rejection, and marginalization

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What is assimilation? Example?

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To adopt the ways of the main culture. EX: the Indians, college life, immigration

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What is integration? Example?

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Combining parts so they form a new whole, “melting pot” EX: ethnic groups

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What is rejection? Example?

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Denial and avoidance of others. EX: the amish

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What is marginalization? Example?

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To confining someone to an unimportant or powerless position within a group. EX: persons living with disabilities, women, racial minorities, etc.

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What are two assumptions about early human cultures?

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They only spent 4-5 hours gathering food, and spent the rest of the day in leisure. They had few material goods.

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What are some ways to explore leisure and cultural development?

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Modernization and ethnocentricity

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What is modernization?

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A transition involving the implementation of recent techniques, methods, or ideas

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What is ethnocentricity?

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Centered on a specific group, usually ones own, and that your own version is superior.

22
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What are three ways to help us understand leisure as space?

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Density, concentration, and pattern

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What is density? Example?

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How often is activity occurring in a particular space. EX: boats in a marina, people in a park

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What is concentration? Example?

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The extent of a features spread over space. Are they close together spread out? EX: How far apart are the parks

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What is pattern? Example?

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Geometric arrangement of objects in space. Are they lined up in a linearly, circle, square, etc. EX: people lined up, boats in a marina.

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What is crowding?

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A subjective and negative judgement about the number of objects in a given space

27
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What two things did we consider when it came to density, concentration, and pattern?

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Crowding and distance

28
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What is distance decay?

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The further out you go (farther distance), the less likely someone is to go

29
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What is space time compression?

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Processes that accelerate the experience of time and this reduce the significance of distance

30
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What two concepts are related to distance?

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Distance decay and space-time compression

31
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How does sense of place impact leisure?

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Leisure is attached to particular places

32
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What other concepts are connected to sense of place and leisure?

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Smellscape, place attachment, place identity, and place dependence

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What is smellscape?

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Smells are place related and elicit emotional responses

34
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What is place attachment?

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An emotional bond between a person and a certain place

35
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What is place identity?

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A place provided the source of self-identification for a person. It is ones 3rd identity. 1st identity is your home identity. 2nd identity is work/school identity. 3rd is a leisure identity.

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What is place dependency?

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A person’s functional association with the place

37
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What are the concerns attached the leisure’s geography?

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Pressure of the health of the environment.

38
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What are two solutions for these concerns?

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Conservation and preservation

39
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What is conservation?

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Efficient use of natural resources over long term

40
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What is preservation?

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Protection of natural resources from human damage

41
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How are concerned tourists responding?

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Ecotourism and sustainable tourism

42
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What is ecotourism?

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Tourism to support conservation efforts and observe wild life. Live with local village.

43
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What is sustainable tourism?

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Tourism taking place with regulations of how many tourists and where they can go; cultural aspects limited/regulated

44
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What are two ways that technology is impacting people’s lives today?

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Information technology revolution and information and communication

45
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What is technology?

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How people modify the world to suit their own purposes

46
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What was the information technology revolution?

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Rapid changes brought about by information forms of technology

47
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What was information and communication technology?

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Any device or application that provides access to information through telecommunications

48
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What are four ways that leisure and technology are intertwined?

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Technology developed for scientific and military purposes, technology developed specifically for leisure, technology expands and widens the range of leisure options, simulated leisure

49
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What is created through leisure technology?

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Identities

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Are there concerns regarding the technology?

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Yes

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