Culture
a group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people
Folk Culture
cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, customs, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities, Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
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, Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other person
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
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
The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places
Hearth
The area where an idea or cultural trait originates
Assimilate
when people lose originally differentiating traits when they come into contact with another society or culture
Custom
Practice routinely followed by a group of people.
Cultural Appropriation
the process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge 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
an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background
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
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 effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction
Time-Space Compression
explains how quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are found by David Harvey
Reterritorialization
when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, making it suit their needs
Cultural Landscape
the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape
Placelessness
The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next
Global-Local Continuum
notion that what happens at the global scale directly effects what happens at the global scale directly effects what happens at a local scale, and vice versa
Glocalization
The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes
Folk-Housing Regions
region win which the housing stock predominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area
Diffusion Routes
the spatial trajectory through which the cultural traits or other phenomena spread