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Human Geography Vocabulary Part 2
This deck covers key terms and concepts in human geography, focusing on cultural, linguistic, and social aspects. It includes definitions and explanations of important vocabulary related to cultural traits, language, ethnicity, and social structures.
popular culture
cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced, western societies
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Term
Definition
popular culture
cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced, western societies
survey systems
systems that are used to collect data
traditional architecture
traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places
vernacular
the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
acculturation
the exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous first-hand contact
adaptation
adjusting to a translation based on the cultural environment of the target language
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
popular culture | cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced, western societies |
survey systems | systems that are used to collect data |
traditional architecture | traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places |
vernacular | the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place |
acculturation | the exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous first-hand contact |
adaptation | adjusting to a translation based on the cultural environment of the target language |
assimilation | the process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms when they come into contact with another society or culture |
cultural convergence | contact and interaction of one culture and another |
cultural divergence | the separation of cultures through less and less contact and interaction between them; restriction of a culture from outside influences |
cultural integration | the process of combining cultures together into one |
core / periphery / semi-periphery | the core-periphery idea that the core houses the main economic power of the region and the outlying region and that the periphery houses the lesser economic ties with the semi-periphery in-between the two |
cultural identity | the way people categorize their culture, sometimes by the way they dress and what they eat |
cultural realm | the entire region that displays the characteristics of a culture |
cultural regions | a portion of earth's surface occupied by a population sharing recognizable and distinctive cultural characteristics |
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-versa |
glocalization | the process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes |
innovation adoption | the diffusion of new ideas |
bario / favala | a shantytown in or near a city; slum area |
cultural adaptation | adjusting to a translation based on the cultural environment of the target language |
cultural shatter belt | an area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultural values |
ethnic cleansing | the systematic killing or extermination of an entire people or nation |
ethnic conflict | a struggle that happened because of ethnicities interacting |
ethnic conclave | a gathering of an ethnic group |
ethnic group | people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture |
ethnic homeland | a sizable area inhabited by an ethnic majority that exhibits a strong sense of attachment to the region |
ethnic neighborhood | a neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs |
ethnicity | affiliation or identity within a group of people bound by common ancestry and culture |
ethnocentrism | conviction of the evident superiority of one's own ethnic group |
ghetto | a forced or voluntarily segregated residential area housing a racial, ethnic, or religious minority |
plural society | a society that contains various cultural groups |
race | a categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics |
segregation | a measure of the degree to which members of a minority group are non-uniformly distributed among the total population |
creole | a language that began as a pidgin language but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in a place of the mother tongue |
dialect | local or regional characteristics of a language |
indo-european language | a family of several hundred related languages and dialects |
isogloss | a geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs |
language family | group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin |
language group | set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics |
lingua franca | a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce |
linguistic diversity | the amount of variation of languages a place has |
monolingual | only one language spoken |
multilingual | more than one language spoken |
official language | in multilingual countries the language selected to promote internal cohesion; usually the language of the courts and government |
pidgin | when two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary |
proto language | an assumed, reconstructed, or recorded ancestral language |
toponymy | the study of place names of a region, or toponyms |
dowry death | in the context of arranged marriages in India, disputes over the price to be paid by the family of the bride to the father of the groom (the dowry) have, in some cases, lead to the death of the bride |
enfranchisement | to admit to citizenship; the rite of voting |
gender | social differences between men and women, rather than the anatomical, biological differences between the sexes |
gender gap | a measurable difference between the behaviors of men and women |