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Culture

The shared beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies of a society.

Cultural Traits

Visible and invisible attributes that combine to make up a group’s culture.

Artifacts

Visible, physical objects created by a culture.

Sociofacts

The ways in which a society behaves and organizes institutions.

Mentifacts

The ideas, beliefs, values and knowledge of a culture.

Architecture

Materials from the local physical environment. Snow, mud, stone, bricks, wood, pelts, grass

Landuse

Agricultural

Sense of place

Unique attributes of a specific location cultural influences and feelings evoked by people in a place. Distinctiveness.

Local/Traditional Culture

small, homogenous (similar) groups of people, often living in rural areas that are isolated and unlikely to change.

Global/Popular Culture

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.

Cultural Norms

Agreed upon cultural practices or standards that guide the behavior of a culture.

Cultural Taboos

Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture.

Ethnocentrism

Judging other cultures in terms of one's own standards and often includes the belief that one’s own culture/ethnic group is better than others.

Cultural Relativism

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 culture when compared.

Cultural Landscape

A natural landscape that has been modified by humans, reflecting their cultural beliefs and values. Basically everything has been modified by humans.

Sequent Occupancy

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.

Ethnicity

is 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.

Ethnic Neighborhoods/Enclaves

People of the same ethnicity that cluster together in a specific location, typically within a major city.

Ethnic Patterns

There is oftentimes a predictable distribution of ethnicities that can be examined at multiple scales.

Gendered Spaces

Places in the cultural landscape utilized to reinforce or accommodate gender roles for men and women.

Traditional Architecture

Influenced by the environment and built with available local materials. Reflective of history, culture and CLIMATE.

Postmodern Architecture

Diverse designs, representative of popular culture, business and economic success. Example

Cultural Realm

Areas of the world that share cultural traits such as language families, religious traditions, food preferences, architecture, and/or a shared history. These cultural traits comprise a similar cultural landscape (although not the exact same) in each cultural realm.

CENTRIPETAL FORCES

Characteristics that unify a country and provide stability.

CENTRIFUGAL FORCES

Characteristics that divide a country and create instability, conflict and violence.