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19 Cards in this Set
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Material Culture |
The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools, campsites, art and structures. The most durable aspects of culture. |
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Non-material Culture |
Ideas, knowledge and beliefs that influence peoples behavior |
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Pop Culture |
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. |
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Commodification |
The process through 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 that can be traded in a market economy. |
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Time-Space Compression |
Refers to the social psychological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence is rapidly reached at a high level of intensity. |
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Placeness |
The loss of uniqueness of a place in the cultural landscape to the point that one place looks like the next. |
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Glocalization |
The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national and global prosses. |
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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 Vera. |
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Race |
A constructed identity and is a perfect example of how identities are built geographically. |
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Ethnicity |
An identity stems from the notion that people are closely bounded, even related, in a certain place over time |
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Cultural Convergence |
When cultures become more like due to sharing technology/ideas. |
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Syncretism |
Traits from two different cultures are mixed to form a new cultural trait |
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Socioeconomics |
Europeans feel they are superior during colonialism |
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Heteronormative |
Tendency to write/think with the default mindset of the white, heterosexual male |
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Queer Theory |
Taking the often negatively used word in society and examining how it opposes and also interacts with the heteronomative |
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Identity |
How we make sense of ourselves; how people see themselves at different scales. |
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Nationality |
Identifies citizens of a country |
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Race |
Constructed out of perceptions based on variations of the human race |
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Ethnicity |
Affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture |