HUG vocab chap 4

Question 1

neolocalism

Answer 1

building a sense of community based on a similar trait

Question 2

commodification

Answer 2

turning cultural traits into goods to sell, buy or trade

Question 3

habit

Answer 3

repetitive act that an individual performs regularly

Question 4

custom

Answer 4

repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group

Question 5

folk culture

Answer 5

practiced by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated areas

Question 6

popular culture

Answer 6

large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics

Question 7

material culture

Answer 7

physical aspects of culture that are given value

Question 8

non material culture

Answer 8

intangible aspects of culture such as ideas, beliefs, or customs

Question 9

cultural appropriation

Answer 9

adoption of traits by other cultures

Question 10

assimilation

Answer 10

abandoning cultural traits for new ones

Question 11

placelessness

Answer 11

loss of uniqueness in a cultural landscape

Question 12

cultural landscape

Answer 12

outcome of interactions between humans and natural environment

Question 13

terroir

Answer 13

contribution of a locations distinctive physical features to the way food tastes

Question 14

taboo

Answer 14

restriction on behaivor imposed by religious law or custom

Question 15

fake news

Answer 15

false report disseminated under the guise of an authentic news report, created to maliciously spread misinformation and mislead consumers of the content

Question 16

alternative fact

Answer 16

statement that can be proved false

Question 17

franchise

Answer 17

agreement between corporation and business people to market that coorporations products in a local area

Question 18

malware

Answer 18

hostile or intrusive software designed to cause intentional harm

Question 19

ransomware

Answer 19

form of malware that encrypts the victims files, making them inaccessible, until a ransom is paid to decrypt them

Question 20

cyber espionage

Answer 20

unauthorized deployment of a virus to observe or destroy data in computer systems of governments or large companies

Question 21

trolling

Answer 21

practice of posting delibarately inflammatory, extraneous, or off topic messages in social media in order to provoke quarrels or otherwise agitate people

Question 22

culture homogenization

Answer 22

process of reduction in cultural diversity through the diffusion of pop culture

Question 23

cultural hearth

Answer 23

place of origin of a cultural trait

Question 24

glocalization

Answer 24

people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes

Question 25

global local continuum

Answer 25

what happens at one scale is not indpendent of what happens at other scales