Culture
Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
Folk Culture
Cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, traditions, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities.
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.
Local Culture
A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others.
Material Culture
The art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people.
Nonmaterial Culture
The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.
Hierarchical Diffusion
A form of diffusion in which an idea or innovation spreads by passing first among the most connected places or peoples.
Hearth
The region from which innovative ideas originate
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. Often used to describe immigrant adaptation to new places of residence.
Custom
Practice routinely followed by a group of people.
Cultural Appropriation
The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit
Neolocalism
The seeking out of the regional culture and reinvigoration of it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world.
Ethnic Neighborhood
Neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitian city and constructed by or composed of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs
Commodification
The process through which something is given monetary value; occurs when a good or idea that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought and sold is turned into something that has a particular price and that can be traded in a market economy.
Authenticity
In the context of local cultures or customs, the accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs.
Distance Decay
The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin
Time-Space Compression
a term associated with the work of David Harvey that refers to the social and psychological effects of living in a world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity
Retteritorialization
With respect to popular culture, when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own.
Cultural Landscape
The visible imprint of of human activity and culture on the landscape. The layers of buildings, forms, and artifacts sequentially imprinted on the landscape by the activities of various human occupants.
Placelessness
Defined by the geographer Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next
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. This idea posits that the world is comprised of an interconnected series of relationships that extend across space.
Glocalization
The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes
Folk Culture Examples
Amish House Carriages, Quebec Cabins, Mound Houses
Main Paths of Diffusion
Transportation, Marketing, Communication Networks
Nashville, Tennessee
Hearth of country music.
New Orleans
Hearth of Jazz music
Memphis
Hearth of Blues
U.S assimilation policy
Native Americans sent to schools and organizations to be Americanized.
Acculturation
Certain traits adopted that change a culture.
Transculturation
Two way change
Mennonites
Anabaptist in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Amish
Anabaptist in Pennsylvania who don't use technology.
Hutterites
Anabaptist in South Dakota who live in colonies and use technology if it's beneficial to their agriculture.
Little Sweden
Town in Kansas that celebrates Swedisness- form of cultural appropriation
Acculturation
Cultural appropriation is synonymous to________
Hasidic Jews
People in New York City
Italians
People in North Boston
Cubans/ Haitiens
People found in Miami
Ethnic Neighborhood activities
Festivals, feasts, parades- St. Patrick's Day. Challenge migration of others in neighborhood.
Zooification
Cultures put on display for tourist- Amish Buses
Time-Space Convergence
Accelerated rate of movement of ideas, goods, and info due to technology advances in transportation and communication.`
Fashion and Brands
Pacsun, Forever 21, Old Navy, Aeropostale, American Eagle, Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister, H & M, and Zumiz
Internet
US has 74% of usage of this. Worldwide there are radio, books, newspapers, and magazines on this.
Music
Apple, iPad, iTouch, youtube, Amazon, and Stores,
MTV
This company had focus groups with kids to know what's cool and then those kids talked to other cool kids about what's "it.
Harlem, Compton, Watis
Hearths of Hip Hop
Folk Music
Cajun Music, Appalachian music, Bluegrass
Sports
Football, basketball, and baseball replaced by extreme games like ESPN, X Games, and UFC.
Dating and Marriage
White wedding, carry bride over door, first dance, toast, bridesmaids, groomsmen, wedding cake, throwing bouquet,
New England
Two Chimneys, Cape Cod- Front wing and gable spread as far as Wisconsin. Kitchen center home and two chimneys for warmth.
Middle Atlantic- I House
Spread from Pennsylvania and Delaware to Midwest.
lower Chesapeake
Maryland and Virginia down the coast. 1 story with steep roof and chimney and kitchen in basement. Tidewater.
Traditional Architecture
log cabins sod homes, adobe homes, diurnal climate.
Food Taboos
Kosher and Halal, Hindus no meat
Folk Food
Curry, Tortillas, Kim chi, Haggis, Ludefisk, Beans and Rice, Bar-B-Q, Japanese Blowfish
Cultural Landscape 1
DIFFUSION OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS & PLANNING IDEAS
Cultural Landscape 2
WIDESPREAD INDIVIDUAL BUSINESSES & PRODUCTS PRODUCE DISTINCTIVE LANDSCAPE EVEN IN REMOTE PLACES
Cultural Landscape 3
WHOLESCALE BOROWING OF IDEALIZED LANDSCAPE IMAGES
Las Vegas Strip
Area with Venetian, Paris, Luxor
Morphology
Size and shape of a place's building, streets, infrastructure, and housing explains culture.
Iban People
Borneo, Malaysia live with extended family. On a longhouse with stilts to protect from river.
Mormons
People in New York to Missouri to Utah who live in farmsteads to protect from persecution and they worship together.
Shotgun
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Dogtrot
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Ranch
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