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Unit 3 Terms Flashcards

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Cultural trait

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Material and non material things that make up the culture

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Cultural relativism

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Not judging anyone’s beliefs and actions and trying to understand why they do that.

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Ethnocentrism

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Judging others culture’s based on your beliefs and culture.

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Cultural landscape

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Landscape that has been shaped by human involvement, that have expressions of regional identity.

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Traditional Architecture

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Buildings built by local people with local materials and resources as well as local techniques.

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Postmodern Architecture

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Buildings that go against the formality and lack of variety in modern architecture.

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Linguistic

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Language

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Ethnic Neighborhood

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A place where the majority residing are from the same ethnic background.

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Ethnicity

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Identity with a group of people who share a common identity with a specific homeland or hearth.

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Land use patterns

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The way land is utilized and organized in a specific area. (Sequent occupance is show)

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Indigenous communities

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A group of people who live within or are attached to geographically distinct traditional habitats.

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Place

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A location

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Placemaking

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A multifaceted approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces.

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Centripetal force

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Forces that binds people or states together

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Centrifugal Force

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Forces that push people away from a place or create a division within a state or area.

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Relocation

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Moving people and their cultural traits from one place to another.

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Diffusion

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The spread of an idea or characteristics over time.

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Hierarchical diffusion

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When a cultural trend is spreading from one segment of society to another in a pattern

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Stimulus diffusion

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When a cultural trait or idea diffuses from its origin to another place, and is changed by the adoptees.

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Contagious diffusion

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An idea spreading from one person to another through contact.

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Expansion

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The process of spreading anything beyond their origin, leading to a broader influence and adoption in new areas.

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Lingua franca

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A common language that allows speakers to communicate without problems

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Creolization

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The process of social and cultural change occurring in societies experiencing rapid social flux.

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Urbanization

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The process of which cities and more urban areas grow and expand and the population increases.

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Colonialism

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Where a country has almost complete control over a country that they have settled in.

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Imperialism

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A policy that lets a country extend its power to take over a another country through colonization

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Globalization

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The increasing connection between different characteristics wound the world

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Time Space Convergence

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The decline in travel time to get from one place to another

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Cultural convergence

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When two or more cultures influence each other and become increasingly similar.

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Cultural divergence

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Where cultures become more and more different as time goes on.

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Language family

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A group of languages that come from the same base language.

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Dialect

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The distinct variation in the way a language is spoken.

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Ethnic culture

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A shared set of customs, beliefs, languages, traditions which distinguishes different cultures.

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Cultural hearth

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A center for innovation and invention, where new ideas are developed and then transmitted into other cultures

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Gender roles

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the societal norms and expectations that dictate how individuals should behave, dress, and conduct themselves based on their perceived gender.

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Indo-European language family

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a family of languages that includes branches like Celtic, Germanic, Italic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken across Europe and parts of Asia.

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Toponyms

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A name given to a place.

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Universalizing religion

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offer belief systems that are attractive to the universal population

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Gravity model

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explains how regions of human populated areas interact and are influenced by the variables of their populations and the distance between them

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Ethnic religion

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relate closely to culture, ethnic heritage, and to the physical geography of a particular place.

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Acculturation

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the adoption of certain cultural and social characteristics of one society by another society

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Assimilation

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the complete integration of someone of minority status into a dominant culture.

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Multiculturalism

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the acceptance of different cultures in a society and the active support of these cultural differences by both the majority and minority group members.

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Folk Culture

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Practices that are mostly done by smaller less dominant groups that increase uniqueness in that group

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Place Utility

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How much a person like a place and its characteristics

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Push-Pull Factors

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Factors that push and pull people towards, and away from a place

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Space-Time Compression

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The shortening of the time to get from one place to another

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Popular Culture

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A culture that is very dominant

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Functional Region

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A region that is centered around a node.

50
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Perceptual Region

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A region that is defined by how people believe it to be.

51
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Ethnic Enclave

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A group of ethnic peoples that live in one area

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