unit 3

Question 1

culture

Answer 1

made up of shared attitudes, practices, behaviors, and technology in a society

Question 2

culture trait

Answer 2

a single attribute of a culture,
such as the behavior of bowing to show respect

Question 3

A particular religious trait might impact a woman’s role in society, voting power, and rates of populations NIR

Answer 3

know

Question 4

cultural placemaking

Answer 4

the making of a place’s unique combination of a culture trait and their reflection in the landscape

Question 5

Certain trait define place: give an example.

Answer 5

the cultural trait related to country music contribute to the the cultural placemaking of Nashville, Tennesee

Question 6

cultural relativism

Answer 6

looking at a culture in a different POV, their own

Question 7

Ethnocentrism

Answer 7

religions think they are the best, thought that your culture is the “center” of the cultural universe: putting culture on pedastol

Question 8

cultural landscape

Answer 8

imprints of cultural traits

Question 9

ethnicity

Answer 9

a people or group of people who identify with each other

Question 10

what are the types of diffusion

Answer 10

expansion, contagious, hierarchical, reverse hierarchical, relocation, stimulus

Question 11

relocation diffusion

Answer 11

the spread of culture or cultural traits by people who migrate and carry their cultural trait with them

Question 12

expansion diffusion

Answer 12

the spread of cultural traits outward through exchange without migration: different person must adopt trait

Question 13

contagious diffusion

Answer 13

cultural trait spreads continuously outward from its hearth through CONTACT AMONG PEOPLE

Question 14

Hierarchical diffusion

Answer 14

when the culture trait spreads from a place or person of power to another leveled patterm

Question 15

Reverse Hierarchical diffusion

Answer 15

a trait diffusing from a group of lower status people to a group of higher status

Question 16

Ethnic neighborhood

Answer 16

an area within a city that has a concentrated population of a particular ethnic group

Question 17

feminist geography focuses on gender roles in various societies and how it shapes the way people intersct with cultural landscape

Answer 17

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Question 18

Acculuration

Answer 18

Acculturation refers to a person retaining significant parts of his or her previous culture while adopting some parts of the new culture.

Question 19

Assimilation

Answer 19

Assimilation occurs when a person moves into a new culture and retains very few, if any, of his or her their previous cultural traits

Question 20

Culture Trait

Answer 20

representative of a religious belief system, a nonmaterial cultural trait.

Question 21

Syncretism

Answer 21

Syncretism is the blending of different cultures or religions

Question 22

sequent occupancy

Answer 22

involves looking in a cultural landscape for traits for imprints of different groups or people who occupied the space before and left cultural traits

Question 23

universalizing religion

Answer 23

try to have a universal appeal and attract all people to their beliefs

Question 24

ethnic religions

Answer 24

attempt to appeal not to all people, but only to one group

ethnic religions spread through relocation proccesses

Question 25

language families

Answer 25

what languages are organized into based on their hearths

Question 26

language divergence

Answer 26

when speakers of the same language relocate and develop variations or dialects to it to meet their new surroundings

Question 27

language shifts

Answer 27

language shifts is when speakers come into context with other languages and a blending of two or more languages occur

Question 28

toponyms

Answer 28

place names that reflect cultural identity

Question 29

Ways toponyms can relate to cultural identity
EXAMPLES

Answer 29

physical features: Grand Canyon (big canyon)
historical events happened in the place
value, aspirations of place: Jerusalem (Jews live there)

Question 30

cultural imperalism

Answer 30

invasion of CULTURE with the intent of dominating the invaded culture politically, economically, or socially

Question 31

cultural nationalism

Answer 31

the resistance by a group of people against cultural imperialism

Question 32

Name a way culture can diffuse through modern culure.

Answer 32

Social Media!

Question 33

cultural convergence

Answer 33

occurs when two cultures interact and become more alike

Question 34

globalization

Answer 34

how cultures interact on a global scale

Question 35

material culture

Answer 35

clothing
food
literature/art
houses/public buildings

Question 36

nonmaterial culture

Answer 36

language/religion
education systems
government/law systems
music/holidays

Question 37

a sense of place

Answer 37

a phenomenon or feeling with a particular geographical location

Question 38

centripetal forces

Answer 38

unites place/people

Question 39

centrifugal forces

Answer 39

forces that divide a country

Question 40

Lingua Franca

Answer 40

a language which is commoly spoken and understood by members of society

Question 41

diaspora

Answer 41

the dispersion of people from their OG homeland

Question 42

syncretism

Answer 42

syncretism: development of a new cultural trait as a result of the blending of two distinct but interacting cultures