Unit 3 Vocab - AP Geo Pg:1

This set of flashcards covers vocabulary terms related to cultural geography, focusing on language, culture, and societal dynamics.

Cultural Homogenization

Process of reduction in cultural diversity through the diffusion of popular culture.

Custom

The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.

Folk Culture

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

Popular Culture

Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.

Habit

A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.

Taboo

A restriction on behavior imposed by a social custom.

Centrifugal Force

A cultural value that tends to pull people apart (divide people).

Centripetal Force

A cultural value that tends to unify people.

Creole language

A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.

Denglish

Combination of Deutsch (German) and English.

Developing language

Language in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.

Dialect

Regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.

Dying language

A language used by older people, but is not being transmitted to children.

Endangered language

A language that children are no longer learning, and its remaining speakers use it less frequently.

Extinct language

A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used.

Franglais

A combination of French and English.

Institutional language

A language used in education, work, mass media, and government.

Isogloss

A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.

Isolated language

A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.

Language

A system of communication through speech or movement, a collection of sounds or symbols understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.

Language branch

A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that can be confirmed through archaeological evidence.