chapter 04: local culture, popular culture, and cultural

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1. assimilation the process through which people lose 11. global-local the notion that what happens at the global
originally differentiating traits, such as continuum scale has a direct effect on what happens at
dress, speech particularities or the local scale, and vice versa. this idea
mannerisms, when they come into contact posits that the world is comprised of an
with another society or culture. often used interconnected series of relationships that
to describe immigrant adaptation to new extend across space
places of residence
12. glocalization the process by which people in a local place
2. authenticity in the context of local cultures or customs, mediate and alter regional, national, and
the accuracy with which a single global processes
stereotypical or typecast image or
13. hearth the area where an idea or cultural trait
experience conveys an otherwise dynamic
originates
and complex local culture or its customs
14. hierarchical a form of diffusion in which an idea or
3. commodification the process through which something is
diffusion innovation spreads by passing first among
given monetary value. commodification
the most connected places or peoples. an
occurs when a good or idea that
urban hierarchy is usually involved,
previously was not regarded as an object
encouraging the leapfrogging of innovations
to be bought and sold is turned into
over wide areas, with geographic distance a
something that has a particular price and
less important influence
that can be traded in a market economy
15. local culture group of people in a particular place who
4. cultural the visible imprint of human activity and
see themselves as a collective or a
landscape culture on the landscape. the layers of
community, who share experiences, customs,
buildings, forms, and artifacts sequentially
and traits, and who work to preserve those
imprinted on the landscape by the
traits and customs in order to claim
activities of various human occupants
uniqueness and to distinguish themselves
5. culture the sum total of the knowledge, attitudes, from others
and habitual behavior patterns shared and
16. material the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances,
transmitted by the members of a society.
culture foods, and other similar items constructed or
this is anthropologist ralph linton's
created by a group of people
definition; hundreds of others exist
17. neolocalism the seeking out of the regional culture and
6. culture the process by which cultures adopt
reinvigoration of it in response to the
appropriation customs and knowledge from other
uncertainty of the modern world
cultures and use them for their own benefit
18. nonmaterial the beliefs, practices, aesthics, and values of
7. custom practice routinely followed by a group of
culture a group of people
people
19. opinion people in social networks who have millions
8. distance decay the effects of distance on interaction,
leaders of followers and help diffuse new ideas and
generally the greater the distance the less
products hierarchically
interaction
20. placelessness defined by geographer edward relph as the
9. ethnic neighborhood, typically situated in a
loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural
neighborhood larger metropolitan city and constructed
landscape so that one place looks like the
by or comprised of a local culture, in
next
which a local culture can practice its
customs 21. popular cultural traits such as dress, diet, and music
culture that identify and are part of today's
10. folk culture cultural traits such as dress modes,
changeable, urban-based, media-influenced
dwellings, traditions, and institutions of
western societies
usually small, traditional communities
22. reterritorialization 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
23. time-space a term associated with the work of david harvey that refers to the social and psychological effects of living in a
compression world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity