culture
Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
custom
a repetitive act of a group performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group
habit
A repetitive act performed by a particular individual
culture complex
A collection of social customs that are performed by a group of people
Expansion Diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process, and staying strong in their places of origin
Heirachical diffusion
The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places
Contagious Diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
Folk Culture
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
popular culture
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Menifact
Customary beliefs, things you believe and care about
Artifact
physical objects of culture
Sociofact
Behaviors/social forms that people contain
adaptive
The way humans adapt to the physical and cultural landscape they are living in
Maladaptive
an 'action taken ostensibly to avoid or reduce vulnerability to climate change that impacts adversely on, or increases the vulnerability of other systems, sectors or social groups.
Acculturation
The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.
Assimilation
the process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms when they come into contact with another society or culture
culture region
An area in which people have many shared culture traits
culture realm
A cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail,
Taboo
a restriction of behavior imposed by social customs
cultural hearth
cultures spread outward, carried by people involved in trade, travel, conquest or immigration
Globalization
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
Ecotourism
responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and sustains the well-being of the local people
Culturual landscape
they link culture to the physical environments in which people live
sequent occupance
The current cultural landscape of a region, as a combination of all the cultures which have 'sequentially' occupied the region from the past to the present. In other words, a region may be occupied by one civilization, followed by another which took its place, and so on. However, the cultural imprint of each civilization is never completely lost, and its traces can be seen to the present day.
Core-Domain-Sphere
a model that shows the place where the concentration of culture traits that characterize a region is the greatest
official language
The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.
Dialect
A regional variety of a language is distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.
Isogloss
borders of individual word usages or pronunciations
langauge family
a group of different languages that all descend from a particular common language
Langauge Branch
a collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago
monolingual state
countries or places in which only one language is spoken
bilingual/multilingual state
being able or knowing how to use more tha none language
linguistic heterogeneity
a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
extinct language
a language that was once used daily but is no longer in use
Revived Language
a language that was once extinct being brought back into society
Isolated Language
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.
Indo-European Family
the lanague family that includes all European languages
Agriculture Theory
deals with both the location-allocation process of land used by farmers and the spatial organization of agricultural land use
conquest theory
One major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe which holds that the early speakers of Proto-Indo-European spread westward
Pidgin
A simplified form of speech developed from two or more languages
Creole
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
lingua franca
a language that speaks over a wide area where it is not the mother tongue
Franglais/Spanglish/Chinglish
new languages are created by mixing a language with English Franglais = French + English Spanglish = Spanish + English (ex: verb textear) Chinglish = Chinese + English
material culture
anything that can be physically seen on the landscape
nonmaterial culture
Anything on the landscape that comprises culture that cannot be physically touched
Universalizing Religion
Offer belief systems that are attractive to the universal population
ethnic religion
a religion that is particular to one culturally distinct group of people
branch
largest and most fundamental division within a religion
Denomination
A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body.
sect
a religious group that is a subset of a religion or denomination, these groups typically share the same beliefs with the religion, but with important differences
Monotheism
Belief in one God
Polytheism
Belief in many gods
Animism
Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.
Pilgrimage
voluntary travel by an adherent to a sacred site to pay respects or participate in a ritual at the site
Hajj
The annual pilgrimage to Mecca, one of the five pillars of Islam
Tirtha
Place of crossing over between the transcendent world and our world. Point of meditation between two realms. Pilgrimages are made to tirthas.
Cosmogony
A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe.
Autonomous religion
A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally.
Hierarchial Religion
A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control.
Fundamentalism
strict interpretation of holy text: found mostly in pre-industrial societies
Law of Sharia
The legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Muslim principles
syncretic religion
religion adapts to new area by incorporating key tenets of local faith
Secularism
ethics without organized religions: found mostly in post-industrial societies
toponymy
the study of place names
Interfaith boundary
the boundaries between the world's major faiths
Intrafaith boundary
The boundaries within a major religion.
Diaspora
a community of people who are dispersed throughout the world, but retain their cultural, religious, or ethnic differences
sacred space
a place that is considered holy to certain people