APHG Unit 3 Culture

This collection of flashcards encompasses key concepts related to cultural geography, religion, and language, crucial for understanding the interaction between human societies and their environments.

Folk Culture

Culture practiced primarily by small homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas.

Popular Culture

Culture practiced by large heterogeneous societies that share certain traits.

Cultural Landscape

The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.

Environmental Possibilism

The theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but that culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.

Cultural Appropriation

The adoption of elements of one culture by members of another culture, often without permission.

Assimilation

The incoming culture adopts almost all of the traits of the new culture and loses its own cultural identity.

Acculturation

Immigrant populations retain enough of the values, attitudes, and customs of the receiving society to function economically and socially.

Placelessness

A condition in which many places look the same, often a source of cultural homogeneity.

Food Taboos

Restrictions on certain foods based on cultural or social norms.

Cultural Hearth

A location where a cultural trait or cultural complex develops.

Neolocalism

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

Commodification

The process by which something that is not regarded as a commodity is turned into something that can be bought or sold.

Reterritorialization

When a culture takes elements from popular culture and uses it according to their own values.

Fundamentalism

A strict literal interpretation of a religious text or set of precepts.

Universalizing Religion

A religion that actively seeks converts and is culturally distinct.

Ethnic Religion

Religion whose followers believe that it represents a universal truth.

Monotheism

The belief in only one God or divine being.

Polytheism

The belief in multiple gods.

Diaspora

The dispersion of a group of people from their homeland.

Lingua Franca

A language used for trade or cultural interaction among people who speak different languages.

Dialect

Variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines.

Isogloss

A geographic boundary where linguistic features occur.

Linguistic Diversity

The presence of multiple languages within a certain area.

Buddhism

A universalizing religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama.

Judaism

An ethnic religion that traces its heritage back to Abraham.

Clothing in Judaism

Typically includes robes and white cotton garments worn by prayer leaders.

Christianity

A universalizing religion based on the teachings of Jesus.

Islam

A universalizing religion founded by the prophet Muhammad with followers believing in one God.

Branches of Christianity

Includes Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox denominations.

Theocracy

A government system in which priests rule in the name of God.

Animism

A traditional religion in which animals and objects are considered sacred.

English

The standard language in the United States and widely spoken globally.

Creolized Language

A stable, fully developed language that evolved from a mixture of colonizing and indigenous languages.

Monolingual

A country in which only one language is spoken.

Multilingual

A country in which multiple languages are spoken.

Official Language

A language adopted for use by the government for conducting business.