AP HUG UNIT 3 VOCAB

Architectural Form

Physical look, design, structure of a building, style and value of materials.

Authenticity

Accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs.

Cultural Appropriation

Process by which a dominant culture adopts, uses, or exploits the cultural traits and symbols of a minority group

Folk Culture

Traditional practices shared by small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation.

Folkways

Informal norms, everyday customs that guide daily social interactions

Folklore

Traditional customs, beliefs, stories, etc… passed through generations.

Maladaptive Diffusion

Adoption of a cultural trait/idea that is unsuitable, impractical, harmful

Material Culture

Set of tangible items that represent a group’s values, beliefs, and behaviors.

Nonmaterial Culture

Intangible aspects, ideas, beliefs, values, and norms that shape a society’s behavior and worldview.

Placelessness

Loss of unique identity in a cultural landscape.

Popular Culture

Set of practices, ideas, and objects shared by large, diverse societies that spread rapidly through mass media and electronic communication.

Survey Systems

Systematic techniques used to measure, divide, legally describe, and record land ownership boundaries

Vernacular Area

Region defined by people’s cultural identity rather than political boundaries.

Acculturation

Process during which a person/group adopts some of the cultural traits/values of a dominant culture while retaining some of the original culture

Cultural Adaptation

Process where people/groups adjust behaviors/mindsets (housing or agricultural practices) to better fit within a new environment.

Cultural Assimilation

Process by which a person/group adopts language, values, customs of a host culture (resulting in a loss of minority identity).

Cultural Convergence

Process where different cultures become more similar to each other as a result of increased interaction, trade, and migration.

Cultural Divergence

Process by which cultural groups become increasingly different and distinct from one another

Cultural Integration

Process where individuals or groups from different cultures adopt aspects of a host culture while still retaining key traditions from their original culture

Core Periphery

Economically dominant, wealthy countries that dominate world trade and finance, technology, while still maintaining dependency by nations from the periphery.

Semi-Periphery

Newly industrializing countries that bridge the gap between core nations and impoverished peripheral countries

Cultural Identity

Individuals/groups’s belief in belonging to a specific culture, defined by shared traits (language, religion, etc…)

Culture Realm

Large geographical area where several cultural regions share a cluster of common cultural traits.

Culture Region

Geographic area where people share common cultural traits, creating a distinct identity

Global-Local Continuum

Idea that what happens at a global scale directly affects what happens at a local scale and vice-versa (showing world is linked by a continuous network of spatial relationships)

Glocalization

Process by which global products, idea, or services are adapted to fit specific preferences of local markets.

Innovation Adoption

Study of how, why, and at what rate a new tech, idea, or practice spreads throughout a culture/social system.

Barrio

Spanish word for neighborhood, typically referring to an urban community/district in Middle and South America.

Cultural Adaptation

Process by which individuals, groups, or communities adjust their behaviors, values, and practices to fit into a new environment.

Cultural Shatterbelt

Geographically and culturally fragmented region caught between powerful rival forces.

Ethnic Cleansing

When a powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful group to create an ethnically homogeneous region.

Ethnic Conflict

Disputes between two or more ethnic groups.

Ethnic Enclave

Geographic area, usually an urban neighborhood, where a certain minority/ immigrant group is spatially concentrated.

Ethnic Group

Collection of people who share a distinct cultural identity, ancestry, history, language, etc.