Cultural Concepts Chapter 4/5 Flashcards

The Atlantic slave trade

The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture.

The geographic areas encompassed by different cultural realms around the globe.

<p>How cultures vary over space.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The trend toward increased cultural and economic connectedness between people, businesses, and organizations throughout the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Exploitation by a stronger country of a weaker one.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A remaining piece from an extinct culture or place.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A man-made environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The institutions and links between individuals and groups that unite a culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Culture is the sum of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared by the members of a society. Environmental perception is the concept that different cultures observe and interpret their environment differently.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A collective of cultural regions sharing related culture systems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area in which people have many shared culture traits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A related set of culture traits descriptive of one aspect of a society's behavior or activity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A single, distinguishing feature of regular occurrence within a culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frequent repetition of an act until it becomes characteristic of a group of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dependence on a single agricultural commodity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reasons certain culture/region eat certain types of food.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Repetitive act performed by an individual.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The physical objects produced by a culture to meet its material needs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The spatial expression of a popular custom in one location being similar to another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A social policy or racial segregation involving discrimination against non-whites.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The rapid change in the racial composition of residential blocks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Forces that tend to divide a country.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Northeast to Northern U.S. mainly has Caucasians; Southeast has many Latin Americans; Western U.S. has a growing African American and Asian population.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>WW2 (Holocaust), Rwandan Genocide, Cambodian Genocide.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Positive: unifies people; Negative: can lead to violence and disregard for old cultures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Part-nation states: Arabia; Multi-national states: North America; Stateless nations: Palestinians, Kurds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Globalization can undermine local identities by introducing new ideas and traditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Colonialism exploits resources from weaker countries, leading to stereotypes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Economic productivity impact; study of 'queer theory' and its geographic distribution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Culture: sum of knowledge and behavior patterns; Cultural Geography: how cultures vary over space; Culture Regions: areas with shared traits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Examples: Anglo-American (English), Latin-American (Spanish).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Folk culture is stable and traditional; Popular culture is wide and rapidly changing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Architecture using local materials; unique regional foods.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wide distribution with minimal variations; food from franchises.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Popular culture leads to a homogenized landscape; Folk culture is more local and sustainable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Both can lead to dominance of resources and judgment of other cultures.</p> Signup and view all the answers