Unit 3 - 1 Flashcards
A group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects
Culture
A visible force seen in a group
s actions, possessions, and influence on the landscape
Visible culture
Guiding people through shared beliefs, customs, and traditions
Invisible culture
Types of elements, visible and invisible native to a group
Cultural Trait
A series of interrelated traits
Cultural Complex
Behaviors widely discouraged by a culture
Taboos
Used to encompass all three cultural designations
Traditional Culture
The beliefs and practices of small, homogeneous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are relatively isolated and slow to change
Folk Culture
When members of an ethnic group reside in their ancestral lands and typically possess unique cultural traits, such as speaking their own exclusive language
Indigenous Culture
Increased integration of the world’s economy since the 1970s
Globalization
When cultural Traits such as clothing, music, movies, and types of businesses spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups
Popular Culture
Traditional cultures have their own customs and language that make it distinct from other cultural groups
Horizontal diversity
Modern societies are usually exhibiting differences, within the society and usually contain numerous multiethnic neighbourhoods
Vertical diversity
Tangible things or those that can be experienced by the senses that are part of a culture
Artifacts/Material Culture
Intangible concepts, or those not having a physical presence
Mentifact/Nonmaterial Culture
The way people organize their society and relate to each other
Sociofacts
Many modern cultural landscapes exhibit a great deal of homogeneity
Placelessness
The visible reflection of a culture. The boundaries of a region reflect the human imprint on the environment
Cultural Landscape
The style reflects a local culture’s history, beliefs, values, and community adaptations to the environment, and typically utilizes locally available materials
Traditional Architecture
This style uses multiple advances to create buildings that rotate, curve, and stretch the limits of size and height
Contemporary Architecture
The membership within a group of people who have common experiences and share similar characteristics such as ancestry, language, customs and history
Ethnicity
Clusters of people of the same culture
Ethnic Enclaves
Clarifies the the importance of cultural values on the distribution of power in societies
Gendered Spaces
Usually determined based on characteristics such as religion, language and ethnicity
Cultural Regions
Many specific places and natural features have religious significance and they are known as…
Sacred Places
Occurs when one group of people is dispersed to various locations
Diaspora
The first group to establish cultural and religious customs in a space
Charter Group
Ethnic concentrations in rural areas
Ethnic Islands (Rural)
Often occupied by migrants who settle in a charter group’s former space
Ethnic Neighborhoods (Urban)
The process of ethnic groups moving in and out of neighborhoods and creating new cultural imprints on a landscape
Sequent Occupancy
The process of re-embracing the uniqueness and authenticity of a place
Neolocalism
The landscape feature is a shrine as a gateway or torri to mark the transition from the outside world to a sacred space
Shinto Landscape
Mosques are present and are usually located in the center of the town
Islamic Landscape
Churches are present with a cross at the top. Tend to have dome-shaped roofs
Christian Landscape
Have temples and sacred sites like the Ganges river. Temples located near rivers and streams
Hindu Landscape
Present with Stupas, pagodas
Buddhist Landscape
Present with synagogues
Jewish Landscape
Consists of related sets of cultural traits in complexes that create similar behaviors across space
Cultural patterns
Where a religion or ethnicity began
Cultural Hearth
Redistribution of ethnic and religious groups in the US reflects historical patterns
Regional distribution of religions in the USA
Based on people’s connection to a particular country
Nationality
Those that unify a group of people or region
Centripetal forces
Those the divide a group of people or a region
Centrifugal forces
The legal fame framework of a country, derived from Islamic
edicts, taken from their holy book the Quran
Sharia
Laws in the US that restrict certain activities
Blue laws
Prohibitions against eating and drinking certain items
Food taboos
An attempt to follow a literal interpretation of a religious faith
Fundamentalism
Countries whose government are run by religious leaders, so the use of religious laws
Theocracies
They believe their own culture group is more important in superior to other cultures
Ethnocentric
The concept that a persons or groups, beliefs, values, more norms, and practices should be understood from the perspective of the other groups culture
Cultural relativism
The action of adopting traits, icons, or other elements of another culture
Cultural appropriation
