Chapter 4 Cultural Geography

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

Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, customs, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities.

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

Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who wrk to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themsleves from others.

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

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

A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples.

The area where an idea or cultural trait originates.

The process through which people lose orginally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture.

Practice routinely followed by agroup of people.

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

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

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

The process through which something is given monetary value. Occurs when a when a good or idea that was previously not regarded as an item to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that can be traded in a market economy.

The accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs.