AP Human Geography Chapter 4 Vocab

Alternative Fact

A statement that can be proved to be false

Cyber Espionage

The unauthorized and clandestine deployment of a virus to observe or destroy data in the computer systems of government agencies and large corporations

Franchise

An agreement between a corporation and businesspeople to market that corporation's products in a local area

Popular Culture

Found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics

Terroir

The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes

Cultural Homogenization

The process of the spreading of popular culture products across larger spaces, resulting in a loss of localized culture diversity and convergence of cultural preferences

Fake News

False, often sensational, report disseminated under the guise of an authentic news report

Habit

A repetitive act that a particular individual performs

Ransomware

A form of malware that encrypts the victim's files, making them inaccessible

Trolling

The practice of posting deliberately inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in social media in order to provoke quarrels or otherwise agitate people

Custom

A repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group

Folk Culture

Traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas

Malware

Hostile or intrusive software designed to cause intentional harm

Taboo

A restriction on behavior imposed by social

Assimiliation

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

Material Culture

Anything that can physically be seen on the landscape

Neolocalism

The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world

Glocalization

The process in which human culture, such as businesses or language or recipes, spreads internationally while also reinforcing certain local cultures.

Cultural Landscape

Cultural attributes of an area often used to describe a place

Non-Material Culture

Anything on the landscape that comprises culture that cannot be physically touched

Commodification

The process of transforming a cultural activity into a saleable product

Global-Local Continuum

The notion that what happens at the global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vice versa

Cultural Hearth

A place of origin for a widespread cultural trend

Cultural Appropriation

A situation where a dominant social or cultural group takes an expression, idea, or product from an oppressed cultural group and uses it for its own benefit.

Placelessness

The loss of uniqueness of a place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the rest