W Geo. Ch 4: Human Geography

Culture

• Consists of the production & exchange of goods and services among a group of people
• Roman Catholic, Protestant, & Eastern Orthodox
• The total of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors shared by and passed on by the members of a specific group
• Average: 3.0

Factors of culture include

• group of people with a common culture living in a territory and a strong sense of unity
• Food, Religion, Relations to family and others, Language, Education, Political and social organization, and Creative expression
• Single-family housing & apartment buildings
• A ruling family has political power

Society

• Monotheistic Polytheistic and Animistic
• a group that shares a geographic region, a sense of identify, and a culture
• 3,000-6,500
• Democracy, Monarchy,

Ethnic Group

• Food, Religion, Relations to family and others, Language, Education, Political and social organization, and Creative expression
• Belief in divine forces in nature
• Based on the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad & followers are known as Muslims
• a group that shares a language, customs, & a common heritage & a separate identity from the region they live in

Innovation

• Gathering raw materials for immediate use
• Taking existing technology & resources & creating something new to meet a need
• Sunni & Shiite
• Areas reserved for manufacturing of goods

Diffusion

• An individual or group holds complete power
• a group that shares a language, customs, & a common heritage & a separate identity from the region they live in
• Spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior
• Consists of a belief in a supernatural power or powers that are regarded as the creators & maintainers of the universe

Cultural hearth

• a site of innovation from which basic ideas, materials, & technology diffuse to many cultures
• Natural Boundaries: Based on physical features of the land
• No exchange of money

Acculturation

• and is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ
• a group that shares a language, customs, & a common heritage & a separate identity from the region they live in
• When several metropolitan areas grow together
• Occurs when a society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation

Nostratic language

• Can diffuse through migration
• low GDP and limited development on all levels of economic activities
• reflect changes in speech patterns related to class, region, or other cultural changes
• One of the earlier languages that developed in Turkey, and is the basis of the Indo-European languages

Dialects

• The study of how people use space in cities
• reflect changes in speech patterns related to class, region, or other cultural changes
• Artificial Boundaries: A fixed line following latitude or longitude lines
• a religion where the goal is to reach nirvana (an enlightened spiritual state)