AP Human Geography - Folk And Popular Culture Ch. 4

The Material manifestation of culture, including tools, housing, systems of land use, clothing, and etc.

The part of the physical landscape that represents material culture, including buildings, roads, bridges, and etc.

The place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest.

The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication.

The concept that people of different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decision about its nature, potentiality and use.

Modification to an environment by humans (including built environments and agricultural systems that reflects aspects of culture.)

A collective of culture regions sharing related culture systems; a major world area having sufficient distinctiveness to be perceived as a set apart from other realms in terms of cultural characteristics and complexes.

A formal or functional region within which common cultural characteristics prevail.

A nuclear area within which an advanced and distinctive set of culture traits, ideas, and technologies develops and from which there is diffusion of those characteristics and the cultural landscape features they imply.

A related set of culture traits descriptive of one aspect of a society's behavior or activity (may be associated with religious beliefs or business practices.)

A single, distinguishing feature of regular occurrence within a culture, such as the use of chopsticks of the observance of a particular caste system. A single element of learned behavior.

The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.

A nineteenth- and early twentieth- century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.

Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogenous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

A Reasons certain culture/region eats food.

A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.

The tangible, physical items produced and used by members of a specific culture group and reflective of their traditions, lifestyles and technologies.

The central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, and etc.

Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.

The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.

The institutions and links between individuals and groups that unit a culture, including family structure and political, educational and religious institutions.

A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.

How popular culture's landscape look the same.

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.

Acculturation is a process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviours of another group. ex. many indigenous people have lost their traditional culture (most evidently language)and replaced by that of the dominant new culture.

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.

natives of an area who have been conquered or dominated by others who came later.

A perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the United States and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions.

The process by which a minority group abandons its own culture and adopts the cultural practices of the dominant group in society

A specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular character.