Unit 3: Cultural Patterns & Processes

Vocabulary:

Sense of Place - what makes a place special?

Sequent Occupancy - marks that different groups of cultures leave

Placemaking - process where community plans and creates public place

Enclaves - area that tend to have one ethnic group

Gender - masculinity & femininity

Sex - difference between male and females biologically

Nationality - legal status, citizens of a country

Ethnicity - distinct ancestry and cultural traditions

Race - biological aspects, especially color of a person

Acculturation- group of people gains cultural trait from another group of people

Creolization - mixing cultural traits

Lingua Franca - common language

Diasporas - people living outside their home country, typically dispersed

Dialects - regional variation of a language

Centrifugal - forces that pull away from the center; ones that break apart or keep states from forming (ex. multiple religions and languages)

Centripetal - forces that unite people and countries (ex. common languages, external threats, shared religion)

Assimilation - all cultural traits are adopted by immigrants (ex. Native Americans)

Syncretism - cultures merge, melting pot

Multiculturalism - several different cultures living in the same place; separate cultures

Cultural Landscapes

combination of physical, agricultural, industrial, religious, and cultural characteristics that make up a landscape

Mapping Ethnicity

Historical Causes of Diffusion

Contemporary Causes of Diffusion