Semester Exam Review Flashcards
ASSIMILATION
Joining the DOMINANT culture and losing MOST of or ALL of your ORIGINAL culture
ACCULTURATION
Adopting certain aspects of DOMINANT culture but KEEPING some of OG culture
TIME-SPACE COMPRESSSION
REDUCTION of TIME it takes to diffuse something to a DISTANT place
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
Using ANOTHER culture as your OWN
COMMODIFICATION
Process in which something is given MONETARY value
PLACELESSNESS
Loss of UNIQUENESS of cultural landscape
POSSIBILISM
People can OVERCOME their environmental OBSTACLES (Japan)
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM
European theory- Temperate zones are where the best countries will be
LARGE SCALE
SMALL area, LOTS of details
SMALL SCALE
LARGE area, LITTLE detail
FORMAL REGION
Has ONE thing in common
FUNCTIONAL REGION
SOCIAL or ECONOMIC function
PERCEPTUAL REGION
Boundaries drawn in people’s MINDS
ARITHMETIC DENSITY
Total # of People/ Total Land
PHYSIOLOGICAL DENSITY
Total # of People/ Arable Land
AGRICULTURAL DENSITY
Total # of Farmers/ Arable Land
CENTRIPETAL FORCE
UNITE the state and ENHANCES support for it
CENTRIFUGAL FORCE
TEAR apart political and ethnic groups
THOMAS MALTHUS
Believed there would NOT be enough FOOD to SUPPORT the people
ESTHER BOSERUP
Proved Thomas WRONG, TECHNOLOGY would be invented to be able to support the people
PRONATALIST
WANTS people to have MORE kids
ANTINATALIST
Want people to STOP having kids
TOTAL FERTILITY RATE (TFR)
AVERAGE # of children born to WOMEN in their lifetime
ZERO POPULATION GROWTH
Birth and death rates are EQUAL
REPLACEMENT RATE
Number of births needed to keep a population STEADY
BASQUE LANGUAGE
ISOLATED language
LARGEST LANGUAGE FAMILY
Indo-European family
ISOGLOSS
A word usage BOUNDARY
RUST BELT
New York— Midwest
(Manufacturing)
SUN BELT
South & West U.S.
MOST CROWDED PLACES
Europe, South Asia, East Asia
COUNTRIES IN STAGE 1
None
TABOO
Behaviors that are DISLIKED by a culture
FOLK CULTURE
SMALL, homogeneous groups who are ISOLATED & SLOW CHANGING
POP CULTURE
LARGE, heterogenous groups who are NEW & YOUNG, WIDESPREAD and FAST-CHANGING
TOPONYM
Name of a place that has SIGNIFICANCE
GLOBALIZATION
The increasing CONNECTIONS around the world due to improvements in TECHNOLOGY
REMITTANCES
Money SENT BACK to a HOME country from foreign (guest) workers
CASTE SYSTEM
SOCIAL class system found in INDIA
ETHNIC RELIGIONS
Judaism, Hinduism
UNIVERSALIZING RELIGIONS
Islam, Buddhism, Christianity
CARRYING CAPACITY
The number of people a place can support using RESOURCES and TECHNOLOGY
MEGALOPOLIS
Boston to DC
DEPENDENCY RATIO
How many people need to be SUPPORTED by the WORKING class
ASYLUM
PROTECTION granted to REFUGEES
CYCLIC MOVEMENT
Takes place DAILY
PERIODIC MOVEMENT
MONTHLY or SEASONAL movement
TRANSHUMANCE
SEASONAL movement of LIVESTOCK
LINGUA FRANCA
An INTERNATIONALLY used language (ENGLISH)
ROMANCE LANGUAGES
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
CREOLE LANGUAGE
Mix of INDIGENOUS and COLONIAL languages
CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
The PHYSICAL imprint on the ENVIRONMENT cause by HUMANS
CULTURAL BARRIERS
PREVENT cultural DIFFUSION
CULTURAL REALMS
PERCEPTUAL regions of the world (Middle East, Latin America, East Asia)
ISLANDS OF DEVELOPMENT
Areas in LDCs that have RESOURCES and MODERN technology
RACE
People distinguished by PHYSICAL traits
ETHNICITY
People who share an IDENTITY
POPULATION TRENDS
Growing at a rate of 0.84%
RELOCATION DIFFUSION
People migrate and take their culture with them
EXPANSION DIFFUSION
When innovations spread to a NEW place while staying STRONG in the original location
STIMULUS DIFFUSION
When an idea diffuses OUTWARD from the hearth, but the idea is CHANGED by the new ADOPTERS
HIERARCHICAL DIFFUSION
Innovation is spread through people of POWER or INFLUENTIAL people
