Vocab Chapter 3

Question 1

Any item, made by humans, that represents a material aspect of culture.

Answer 1

Artifact

Question 2

The man made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large scale civic surroundings

Answer 2

Built environment

Question 3

The place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest

Answer 3

Core domain spear model

Question 4

The contact and interaction of one culture to another

Answer 4

Cultural convergence

Question 5

The concept that people of different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decisions about its nature, potentiality and use

Answer 5

Cultural/environmental perception

Question 6

Modifications to the environment by humans, including the built environment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects of their culture

Answer 6

Cultural landscape

Question 7

The entire region throughout which a culture prevails. Criteria that may be chosen to define culture realms include religion, language, diet, customs, or economic development

Answer 7

Cultural realm

Question 8

Locations on earth’s surface where specific culture is first arose

Answer 8

Cultural hearth

Question 9

The group of traits that define a particular culture

Answer 9

Cultural complex

Question 10

The specific customs that are part of the every day life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture

Answer 10

Cultural trait

Question 11

A region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features

Answer 11

Cultural region

Question 12

Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group

Answer 12

Customs

Question 13

A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions

Answer 13

Environmental determinism

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Folk culture

Question 15

Reason certain culture/region eat certain types of food

Answer 15

Food attraction

Question 16

A repetitive act there a particular individual performs

Answer 16

Habit

Question 17

The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools, campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture.

Answer 17

Material culture

Question 18

The central enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and believes, including language religion folklore and etc.

Answer 18

Mentifact

Question 19

Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous society’s permitting considerable individualism,innovation, and change; having a money based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties;and producing and consuming machine made goods.

Answer 19

Popular culture

Question 20

The theory that the physical may set limits on human actions, but the people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives

Answer 20

Possiblism

Question 21

The institutions and links between individuals and groups that unite a culture, including family structure and political, education and religious institutions

Answer 21

Socio fact

Question 22

A restriction on a behavior imposed by social custom

Answer 22

Taboo

Question 23

The spatial expression of a popular custom and one location that will be similar to another

Answer 23

Uniform landscape

Question 24

The spread of an innovation or idea through a population in an area

Answer 24

Expansion diffusion

Question 25

The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another

Answer 25

Relocation diffusion

Question 26

A group of people in a particular place that see themselves as a collective or a community, with shared experiences, customs, and trains;working together to preserve those trains in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others.

Answer 26

Local culture

Question 27

Beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people

Answer 27

Nonmaterial culture

Question 28

Process through which people lose originally differentiating traits (dress, speech particularities, mannerisms, etc.)when they come into contact with another society or culture; often described immigrants adaptation to new places of residence

Answer 28

Assimilation

Question 29

Process by which outside cultures adopt customs and knowledge of another culture and use them for their own benefit

Answer 29

Cultural appropriation

Question 30

The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world

Answer 30

Neolocism

Question 31

Neighborhood, typically situated in a large metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice it’s customs

Answer 31

Ethnic neighborhoods

Question 32

Process through which something (A good, and idea, even a person)that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought or sold, becomes an object that can be bought, sold, and traded in the world market

Answer 32

Commodification

Question 33

In the context of local cultures or customs, the accuracy with which a single stereo typical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or it’s customs

Answer 33

Authenticity

Question 34

The loss of uniqueness of a place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next

Answer 34

Placelessness

Question 35

• Ideas, beliefs, and values that people hold
• abstract and mental
• example is religion

Answer 35

Mentifact

Question 36

– Material manifestations of culture

• which are made, created, or produced by people
• example is technology for basic needs

Answer 36

Artifact

Question 37

– The way where people organize their society and relate to one another

• aspects of culture relating to links between individuals and groups
• example is family structure and political system

Answer 37

Socio fact