AP Human Geography Unit 3 Vocab Prep

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Culture

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

AMSCO Definition: All of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects.

Notes Example: Local/Traditional, Global/Popular

AMSCO Example: For example, in a large city you can see people working in offices, factories, and stores, and living in high-rise apartments or suburban homes. You might observe them attending movies, concerts, or sporting events

Cultural Traits

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

AMSCO Definition: The types of elements, visible and invisible in a culture are called cultural traits.

Notes Example: Artifacts, Mentifacts, Sociofacts
AMSCO Example: Many people in the US have developed a strong sense of competitiveness in school and business, and believe that hard work is a key to success.

Taboos

Notes Definition: Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture. 

AMSCO Definition: Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture.

AMSCO Example: Many cultures have these against eating certain foods, such as pork or insects. These change over time. In the US, marriages between Protestants and Catholics were once this, but they are not widely opposed now.

Notes Example: 

Traditional/Folk Culture

Notes Definition:

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

AMSCO Definition:
The beliefs and practices of small, homogenous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are relatively isolated and slow to change.

Notes Example: 

A Festival celebrating the rich cultural heritage of the Kutubu Foe and Faso people inclusive of neighbouring Bosavi and Huli Tribes in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Traditional 'singsing', arts and crafts; tours of the traditional 'haus-man' and scenic tours of the majestic Lake Kutubu; displays of sacred body arts, chantings and 'kundu' drum beats..plus many more traditional activities.

AMSCO Example(s):

                            People around the world learned to make shelters out of available resources, whether it was snow or mud bricks or wood.

• However, people used similar resources such as wood differently. 

• In Scandinavia, people used trees to build cabins. 

• In the American Midwest, people processed trees into boards, built a frame, and attached the boards to it.

• Corn was first grown in Mexico around 10,000 years ago, and it is still grown there today

Global/Pop Culture

Notes Definition: 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.

AMSCO Definition: When cultural traits such as clothing, music, movies, and types of businesses spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups, they become part of this. These elements can be adopted worldwide, making them global.

Notes Example: TikTok, Among Us, Mullet

AMSCO Example(s):

People around the world follow European soccer, Indian Bollywood movies, and Japanese animation known as anime.

With people in many nations wearing similar clothes, listening to similar music, and eating similar food, popular cultural traits often promote uniformity in beliefs, values, and the cultural landscape across many places