Unit 3: Culture and Language

Question 1

custom

Answer 1

the frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act

Question 2

folk culture

Answer 2

the practices of a relatively small group of people in a small area

Question 3

habit

Answer 3

a repetitive act performed by a particular individual

Question 4

popular culture

Answer 4

made up of large heterogeneous societies share certain habits

Question 5

taboo

Answer 5

a restriction on behavior imposed by social custom

Question 6

terroir

Answer 6

the contribution of a location’s distinctive physical features to the way food tastes

Question 7

folk music

Answer 7

tells a story or convey information about daily activities such as farming, life- cycle events, or mysterious events such as storms and earthquakes

Question 8

popular music

Answer 8

written by specific individuals for the purpose of being sold to a large number of people

Question 9

culture

Answer 9

mix of values, beliefs, behaviors, and material objects that form a people’s way of life

Question 10

cultural geography

Answer 10

study of how and why cultures vary over space

Question 11

cultural landscape

Answer 11

places that reveal a society’s cultural identity through nature as well as through architecture and artifacts

Question 12

designed landscape

Answer 12

embody the cultural ideas of the designer

Question 13

vernacular landscape

Answer 13

comes about through the use of people over time

Question 14

ethnographic landscape

Answer 14

contains both natural and cultural resources important to a certain group of people

Question 15

historic site

Answer 15

important because of an historical event, activity or person

Question 16

culture trait

Answer 16

single attribute of a culture, often not confined to a single area

Question 17

culture systems

Answer 17

a group of interconnected culture complexes

Question 18

culture regions

Answer 18

an area with strong cultural ties that binds it from other regions

Question 19

culture realm

Answer 19

large area marked by a number of cultural regions- its set apart from other world area

Question 20

cultural hearth

Answer 20

an area where a cultural trait first begins

Question 21

cultural diffusion

Answer 21

spread of culture to areas surrounding the cultural hearth

Question 22

acculturation

Answer 22

process of the less dominate culture adopting the traits of more dominate one

Question 23

assimilation

Answer 23

less dominate culture loses native customs completely

Question 24

transculturation

Answer 24

2 way flow of culture between dominant and less dominant

Question 25

ethnocentrism

Answer 25

practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture

Question 26

cultural relativism

Answer 26

evaluating a culture by its own standards

Question 27

folk culture region

Answer 27

traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups

Question 28

toponym

Answer 28

the name given to a portion of Earth’s surface

Question 29

Cultural complex

Answer 29

Combination of different cultural traits in distinctive ways

Question 30

Independent innovation

Answer 30

Develop in many hearths apart from interaction with one another

Question 31

Syncretic

Answer 31

Combination of different cultural concepts into one

Question 32

Indigenous cultures

Answer 32

Original inhabitants of a territory that is distinct from the dominant natural culture

Question 33

Material culture

Answer 33

Deriving from the survival activities of everyone’s daily life- food, clothing, and shelter

Question 34

Relocation diffusion

Answer 34

Spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another

Question 35

Hierarchical diffusion

Answer 35

Spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to others persons or places