5.9 Glossary

Acculturation: individuals, a group, or people  adapt  or borrow traits from another culture

Appropriation, cultural: the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society.

Assimilation: individuals, a group, or people of a different ethnic heritage merge their traits with the dominant culture.

Commodification: The process of transforming a cultural activity into a saleable product.

Cultural ecology: Study of human adaptations to physical environments.

Cultural Landscape: Landscapes produced by the interaction of physical and human inputs.

Cultural reproduction: The process of inculcating cultural values into successive generations.

Cultural tourism: A variety of tourism concerned with exploring the culture of a place.

Culture: Learned human behavior associated with groups.

Culture Hearth: Historic location of cultural formation.

Fashion: The latest and most socially esteemed style of clothing or other products and behaviors.

Folk Culture: Culture practiced by a small, homogeneous, usually rural group. AKA Traditional culture.

Formal region: A region that has defined boundaries, often a governmental unit such as a country, province, or county.

Functional region: A region defined by a relationship, such as the market area of a product, a commuter zone or an employment market.

Globalization: The global movement of money, technology, and culture.

Heterogeneous: A population composed of dissimilar people.

Homogeneous: A population composed of similar people.

Material culture: The objects and materials related to a particular culture.

Non-material culture: the ideas, philosophies, arts related to a particular culture

Perceptual region: Internally defined region that exists as the expression of a cultural type.

Placelessness: The state of having no place. In the modern context, a place exactly like any other place.

Popular Culture: Culture created for consumption by the mass of population.