AP Human Geo UNIT 3 (Vocab terms)

What is folk culture?

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

• Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain

What is pop culture?

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

• Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain

Material culture

• Made up of things, people make and often give value to, such as cars, homes.

• Made of the ideas of a society, which are often considered dear to the group

non-material culture

• Made up of things, people make and often give value to, such as cars, homes.

• Made of the ideas of a society, which are often considered dear to the group

click all the cultural traits

• language

• clothing and fashion

• artifacts

• architecture

Cultural Relativism:

• Evaluating a culture by its own standards can humanize a cultural group

• Evaluating another culture through the lens of one's own culture

Ethnocentrism:

• Evaluating a culture by its own standards can humanize a cultural group

• Evaluating another culture through the lens of one's own culture

Cultural Landscape:

• Certain public or private spaces are often reserved for one gender or another, depending on the culture

• A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom

• The first culture to settle in an area

• A repetitive act performed by a particular indicidual

Taboo:

• The process of reduction in cultural diversity through the diffusion of popular culture

• A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom

• The first culture to settle in an area

• A repetitive act performed by a particular indicidual

Indigenous Culture:

• The process of reduction in cultural diversity through the diffusion of popular culture

• Evaluating a culture by its own standards can humanize a cultural group

• The first culture to settle in an area

• A repetitive act performed by a particular indicidual