Ap hg unit 3 vocab

Artifact

Things which comprise the material culture of a place. ex. art, clothing, food, music, sports, housing

mentifact

Nonmaterial parts of a culture such as language, religion, folk stories, myths, etc.

centripetal

Forces that tend to unify a country—such as widespread commitment to a national culture, shared ideological objectives, and a common faith

centrifugal force

a cultural value that tends to pull people apart

cultural landscape

the visible human imprint on the environment, representing how a society's culture, beliefs, and practices shape the physical world. It includes everything from architecture and agricultural patterns to religious sites and place names

Cultural realm

A highly generalized region where a group of cultures with significant common traits exist, often based on criteria like religion, language, or diet

Cultural relativism

the practice of judging a culture by its own standards

culture

the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next

ethnic neighborhoods

a neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs

ethnicty

Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.

Ethnocentrism

evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.

Folk Culture

cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities

gender

the socially constructed roles and characteristics by which a culture defines male and female

gendered spaces

areas in which gender expression is either welcome or unwelcome

Indigenous community

people who are the original inhabitants of a country

language

our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

pop culture

modern popular culture transmitted via mass media and aimed particularly at younger people.

religion

the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

sense of place

The feeling that an area has a distinct and meaningful character

sequent occupance

the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape

sociofact

institutions of culture that link people: family structure, political ideas

taboo

A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom. (derived from the tahitian concept)