Artifact:Any item, made by humans, that represents a material aspect of culture
Built environment:The man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-scale civic surroundings.
Core-domain-sphere model:The place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest.
Cultural complex:The group of traits that define a particular culture.
Cultural convergence:The contact and interaction of one culture to another.
Cultural hearth:Locations on earth’s surface where specific cultures first arose.
Cultural landscape:Modifications to the environment by humans, including the built environment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects if their culture
Cultural realm:The entire region throughout which a culture prevails. Criteria that may be chosen to define culture realms include religion, language, diet, customs, or economic development.
Cultural region:a region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features.
Cultural trait:The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture.
Cultural/environmental perception:The concept that people of different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decision about its nature, potentiality and use.
Custom:Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group.
Environmental determinism:A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.
Expansion diffusion:the spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area
Folk culture (folkways):Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
Food attraction:Reasons certain culture/region eat certain types of food.
Habit:a repetitive act that a particular individual performs.
Material culture:The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture
Mentifact:The central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, and etc.
Popular culture:Dynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine-made goods.
Possibilism:The theory that the physical may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.
Relocation diffusion:sequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate the new ones
Sociofact:The institutions and links between individuals and groups that unite a culture, including family structure and political, educational and religious institutions.
Taboo:a restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom.
Uniform Landscape:the spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another.
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