Unit 3 Vocabulary Flashcards
The shared beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies of a society:
Culture
Visible and invisible attributes that combine to make up a group’s culture:
Cultural Traits
Visible, physical, objects created by a culture:
Artifacts
The ways in which a society behaves and organizes institutions:
Sociofacts
Ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge of a culture:
Mentifacts
Small, homogenous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are isolated and unlikely to change:
Traditional/Local Culture
Materials from the local, physical environment such as: Snow, mud, stone, bricks:
Traditional/Local Culture Architecture
Type: Agricultural
Sense of Place:
Traditional/Local Culture Land-Use
Large, heterogeneous groups of people, often living in urban areas that are interconnected through globalization and the internet/social media. Quick to change, time-space compression:
Popular/Global Culture
Materials from factories and manufactured:
Popular/Global Culture Architecture
Type: Urban and Suburban
Placelessness:
Popular/GLobal Culture Land-Use
Agreed upon practices or standards that guide the behavior of a culture:
Cultural Norms
Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture:
Cultural Taboos
Judging other cultures in terms of one’s own standards and often includes the belief that one’s culture/ethnic group is better than other:
Ethnocentrism
An unbiased way of viewing another culture, the goal of this is to promote understanding of cultural practices that are not typically part of one’s own culture. Leads to the view that no one culture is superior to another when compared:
Cultural Relativism
A natural landscape that has been modified by humans reflecting their cultural beliefs and values:
Cultural Landscape
The idea that societies or cultural groups leave their cultural imprints when they live in a place, each contributing to the overall cultural landscape over time. Most cultural landscapes are a mixture of historic and modern structures:
Sequent Occupancy
Attitudes towards _____ and _____, including the:
Role of ____
______ spaces;
_____ neighborhoods
Ethnicity, gender
Women; gendered; ethnic
A sense of belonging or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture. This is different from race which is based on physical characteristics:
Ethnicity
People of the same ethnicity that cluster together in a specific location, typically within a major city:
Ethnic Neighborhoods/Enclaves
There is oftentimes a predictable distribution of ethnicities that can be examined at multiple scales:
Ethnic Patterns
In traditional cultures, oftentimes the primary role of a woman is to have children, NOT be active in education or the workforce:
The Role of Women
As countries become more _________ and _______ ________, women have access to more ______, the _______, and _______ ______:
Economically; socially developed; education; workforce; property rights
Places in the cultural landscape utilized to reinforce or accommodate gender roles for men and women:
Gendered Spaces
Geographers study ____-____ ________ as seen on the cultural landscape which reflect the cultural ______ of the people living there:
Land-use patterns; values
Practice of cutting flat areas out of mountainous terrain in order to make it arable:
Terrace Farming
Influenced by the environment and built with available local materials. Reflective of history, culture, and climate:
Traditional Architecture
Diverse designs, representative of popular culture, business, and economic success:
Postmodern Architecture
Regional patterns of _____, ______, and ______ contribute to a sense of place, enhance _______ & shape the _____ _____ ____:
Language; religion; ethnicity; placemaking; global cultural landscape
Areas of the world that share cultural traits such as language families, religious traditions, food preferences, architecture, and/or shared history:
Cultural Realm
Language: English
Religion: Christianity
Shared History: European Settlement and Colonization
Ethnicity: Indigenous, European, African, Hispanic
Anglo-American Cultural Realm
Language: Spanish
Religion: Roman Catholicism
Shared History: Colonized by Europeans
Ethnicity: Hispanic, Afro-Carribean/Latino, European, Indigenous
Latin American Cultural Realm
Characteristics that unify a country and provide stability:
Centripetal Fores
