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Culture

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

cultural traits

culture is a force guiding people through shared beliefs systems, culture, and tradition. Culture is learned developed through experiences. These type of elements, visible and invisible.

cultural complex

A series of interrelated traits make up a …

culture hearth

The area in which a unique culture or a specific trait develops is a …

diffuse

spread

taboos

behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture.

traditional culture

encompass all three culture designations

globalization

specifically refers to the increased integration of the world economy since the 1970s

popular culture

When cultural traits such as clothing, music, movies, and types of business, spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups they become part of …

global culture

these elements can quickly be adopted worldwide, making them apart of …

cultural landscape

is the visible imprint of human culture on the natural or physical environment. Modification of the environment by a group and is a visible reflection of that groups cultural beliefs and values.

material culture

The tangible things, or those that can be experienced by the senses. ex: art, clothing, food, music, sports, housing types.)

artifacts

The items that comprise the material culture.

mentifacts

The individual elements that comprise a group's nonmaterial culture, consisting of intangible concepts or those not having a physical presence.

nonmaterial culture

A culture that consists of intangible concepts, or those not having a physical presence, which are comprised of individual mentifacts.

sociofacts

which are ways people organize their society and relate to one another

placelessness

similar architecture related socioeconomic status and other related factors

built environment

the physical artifacts thay humans have created and that form part of a landscape ex buildings roads.

traditional architecture

style reflects a local culture history beliefs, value, and community adaptations to the environment, and typically utilizes locally available materials.

Postmodern architecture

developed after the 1960s. It is a movement away from boxy, mostly concrete or brick structure toward high rise structure made from large amounts of steel and glass siding.

contemporary architecture

During the 21st century. Emerged as an extension of postmodern architecture. This style use multiple advances to create buildings that rotate curve and stretch.

ethnicity

refers membership within a group of people who have a common experiences and share similar characteristic such as ancestry, language, customs, history.

ethnic enclaves

cluster of people of the same culture

culture regions

are usually based determined based on characteristics such as religion, language and ethnicity.

culture realms

larger areas that include severals regions

sacred place

many specific places and natural features have religions significance and are known as…

Diaspora

occurs when a group of people is dispersed to various locations.

Charter group

The first group to establish cultural and religious customs in a space known as…

ethnic islands

In rural areas, ethnic concentrations form.. Their cultural imprints revolve around housing and types and agriculture dwellings that reflects their heritage.

sequent occupancy

Ethnic groups move in and out of neighborhoods and create new culture imprints on the landscape in a process

neolocalism

the process of re-embracing the uniqueness and authentic of a place.

cultural patterns

consist of related sets of cultural traits and complexes that create similar behaviors across space.

cultural extinction

obliteration of entire culture by war, disease, acculturation or a combination these.

cultural geography

the subfield of human geography that looks at how cultures vary over space.

cultural imperialism

the dominance of one culture over another

syncretic

traditions that borrow from both the past and the present

tradition

a cohesive collection of customs within a cultural group.

nationality

based on people’s connection to a particular country and ethnicity based upon cultural traits

centripetal forces

are those that unify a group of people or region, may include common language and religion.

centrifugal forces

are those divide a group of people or religion.

sharia

or the legal framework of a country derived from islamic edicts taken from their holy book

blue laws

laws that restrict certain activities such as the sale of alcohol.

fundamentalism

an attempt to follow a literal interpretation of a religious faith.

theocracies

countries whose gov are run by religious leaders through the use of religious laws.

ethnocentric

they believe their own culture group is more important or superior to other cultures

cultural appropriation

is the action of adopting traits icons or other elements of another culture.

diffusion

the spread of information ideas behaviors and other aspects of culture from their hearths to wider areas

relocation diffusion

the spread of culture and or cultural traits by people who migrate and carry their cultural traits with them.

expansion diffusion

the spread of cultural traits through exchange without migration

hierarchical diffusion

the spread of culture outward from the most interconnected places or from powerful wealth and influence

reverse hierarchical diffusion

a trait diffuses from a group of lower status to group of higher status in a process called.

stimulus diffusion

when a underlying idea from a culture hearth is adopted by another culture but the adopting group modifies or rejects one trait.