APHUG Chapter 4 Vocab

Culture

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

Folk Culture

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

Popular Culture

Cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban based, media influenced western societies.

Local Culture

Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs.

Material Culture

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

Nonmaterial Culture

The beliefs, practices, aesthics, and values of a group of people.

Hierarchal Diffusion

A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples. An urban hierarchy is usually involved, encouraging the leapfrogging of innovations over wide areas, with geographic distance a less important influence.

Hearth

The region from which innovative ideas and cultural traits originate.

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.

Cultural Appropriation

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

Neolocalism

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

Ethnic Neighborhood

Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitian city and constructed by or composed of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs.

Commodification

The process though which something is given monetary value.

Distance Decay

The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction.

Time-space Compression

The social and physiological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity.

Cultural Landscape

the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape

Placelessness

Defined by the geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.

Diffusion Routes

The spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spread.

Authenticity

In the context of local cultures or customs, the accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs.

Custom

Practice routinely followed by a group of people.

Globallocal continuum

The notion that what happens at the global scale has a direct effect on what happens on the local scale, and vice versa. This idea posits that the world is comprised of an interconnected series of relationships that extend across space.

Glocalization

The process by which people in a local place meeting after regional, national, and global processes.

Reterritorialization

With respect to popular culture, when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture making it their own.

Folk-Housing Region

A type of region in which the housing stock predominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of people who have long inhabited the area.