4.10: Key Terms Defined
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.
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.
Resistance : Actively pursuing a policy of obstruction of a particular process or undertaking.