key issue 3 Flashcards
Syncretism
The combination of different forms of belief or practice, it can borrow from the past and present.
Acculturation
Process of adopting only certain customs that will be to people’s advantage.
Behavioral Geography
The study of the psychological basis for individual human actions in space
Density
The frequency with which something exists within a given unit of area
Distribution
The arrangement of something across the earth’s surface
Globalization
Actions involving a large part of the world and results in making something worldwide in scope
Transnational Corporation
Headquarters of a company located in 1 country but operates factories and offices in multiple countries
Concentration
Describes whether objects are clustered or dispersed over an area
Humanistic Geography
The study of different ways that individuals form ideas about a place and give those places a symbolic meaning
Hearth
The place from which innovation originates then diffuses
Diffusion
How a characteristic, feature, or trend spreads across space from one place to another
Expansion Diffusion
The spreading out of an idea or feature from one place to another in an additive process. The 3 types are
1. Heirarchal
2. Contagious
3. Stimulus
Stimulus Diffusion
The spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected
Hierarchal Diffusion
Spreads from a person or mode of authority or power to other places
Relocation Diffusion
An idea is spread by the physical movement of people from one place to another
Network
A chain of communication that connects places
Contagious Diffusion
The very rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population
Distance Decay
The farther away 2 groups are from one another, the less likely they are to interact
Space/Time Compression
The time is takes for something to reach another place has rapidly decreased
Uneven Development
The increasing gap in economic conditions between core and peripheral regions as a result of the globalization of the economy
Pattern
The geometric or regular arrangement of something in a particular area
Poststructuralist Geography
The study of space as the product of ideologies or value system of elites
Assimilation
Process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture
