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21 Cards in this Set
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Assimilation |
People lose differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture. Used to describe immigrant adaption to new places of residence |
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Authenticity |
The accuracy with which the single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs |
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Commodification |
Process which something is given monetary value; occurs when a good idea that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and can be traded in a market economy |
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Cultural appropriation |
Process which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit |
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Cultural landscape |
Visible imprint of human activity and culture on landscape |
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Culture |
Sum total of the knowledge,attitudes,and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of society. Ralph Linton’s definition |
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Custom |
Practice routinely followed by a group of people |
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Distance Decay |
The effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction |
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Ethnic Neighborhood |
Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitan city and constructed by or composed of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs |
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Folk culture |
Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities |
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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. This idea posits that the world is comprised of an interconnected series of relationships than extend across space |
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Glocalization |
Process which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes |
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Hearth |
The area where an idea or cultural trait originates |
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Hierarchical diffusion |
Form of diffusion which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or people |
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Local culture |
Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective/community, sharing and preserving experiences, customs, and traits to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others |
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Material culture |
The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people |
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Neolocalism |
The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world |
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Non-material culture |
The beliefs, practices, aesthics, and values of a group of people |
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Placelessness |
Defined by Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next |
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Popular culture |
Culture traits such as dress, diet and music that identify and are part of today’s changeable, urban-based, media-influenced western societies |
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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 own local culture and making it their own |
