AP Human Geo Unit 3 Vocab Page 1& 2

What term means: shared practices, technologies, attitudes and behaviors by the members of a society that are not the result of biological inheritance (socially constructed)

• Cultural Landscape

• Culture

• Culture Trait

• Indigenous Communities

What term means: a group of people who share a common cultural identity

Ex. Hispanic, German, Italian, Hmong, Japanese

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Gender

• Culture

What term means: Historical classification that is used to categorize human populations with shared physical traits (not culture)

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Gender role

• sequent occupante

What term means: A single attribute of a culture, such as food preference, architecture, and land use

• Culture

• Sequent Occupance

• Culture Trait

• Ethnic Neighborhood

What term means: Judging another culture based on the values of one's own culture (language, religion, customs)

• Culture

• Cultural Relativism

• Gender Role

• Ethnocentrism

What term means: The idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another

• Culture

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural Relativism

• Gendered Spaces

What term means: the combination of physical features, agricultural and industrial practices, religious and linguistic characteristics, sequent occupancy, traditional and postmodern architecture, and land use patterns.

• Culture

• Cultural Traits

• Indigenous Communities

• Cultural Lanscape

What term means: The combined imprint on an area when it has been inhabited by a succession of cultures

• Cultural Landscape

• Culture

• Sequent Occupance

• Place Making

What term means: The original settlers of an area (pre-invasion/colonialism) who have retained their culture apart from the colonizers

• Indigenous Communities

• Ethnic Neighborhoods

• Sequent Occupance

• Cultural Landscape

What term means: an area within a city occupied by a distinctive minority culture.

• Indigenous Community

• Cultural Landscape

• Sequent Occupance

• Ethnic Neighborhood