Chapter 6 Culture Vocabulary

Culture

All of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects

Cultural Traits

All of a cultures invisible or visible elements

Cultural Complex

A series of interrelated traits make up this

Culture hearth

The area in which a unique culture or specific trait develops

Diffuse

How cultures spread to other places from a cultural hearth

Taboos

Behaviors heavily discourage by a culture.

Traditional Culture

Used to encompass traditional, folk, and indigenous

Folk culture

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

Indigenous Culture

When members of an ethnic group reside in their ancestral lands, and typically posses unique cultural traits, such as speaking their own exclusive language

Globalization

the increased integration of the world economy since the 1970s.

Popular culture

When cultural traits spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups

Global Culture

Worldwide popular culture

Cultural landcape

the visual imprint of human culture on the natural or physical environment

Menifacts

Comprise a group’s nonmaterial culture and consist of intangible concepts, or those not having a physical presence

Artifacts

Comprise material culture, which consists of tangible things,

Sociofacts

the ways people organize their society and relate to one another

Placelessness

When many modern cultural landscapes exhibit a great deal homogeneity

Built environment

The physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape