GEOG 121- Exam 2

“Commodification”

process of making something that was not previously bought and sold a commodity in the marketplace

cultural appropriation

the process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit 

Residential Segregation

the degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of the urban environment

Popular Culture

Can be defined as traits OR a population 

Culture

the sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society 

Local Culture Cont

 influence places 

e.g: leave their imprint on the cultural landscape

Material culture:

the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people 

Non-material cultures

the beliefs practices, aesthetics and values of a group of people 

Ethnicity

• An affiliation or identity within a group bound by common ancestry and culture 

• Can also mean a small, cohesive, culturally linked group of people who stand apart from the surrounding culture, often as a result from migration 

Identity

• How people see themselves at different scales

Race

a categorization of human based on skin color and other physical characteristics 

Gender

social difference between men and women, rather than the anatomical, biological differences between the sexes

Gendered

in terms of a place, whether the place is designed for or claimed by men or women

• divisions of labor one of the clearest ways in which societies are gendered ( inclusive of exclusive of a gender)

Heteronormative

viewpoint of researchers that the default subject of their studies is a white, heterosexual, male

Queer theory:

theory that highlights the contextual nature of opposition to and focuses on the political engagement of “queens” with the heteronormative