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TCMG 1112 CULTURE TERMS: pop culture, folk culture, language
Terms, Concepts, Models, Geographers – Use notecards
FRONT >
BACK >
A place from which an innovation or
HEARTH
invention originates. (Rubenstein)
Front of card: Term, Concept, Model or Geographer (choose a color pattern and use it for each unit)
Symbol, graphic or hint to help you remember TCMG
Back of card: Geographic definition and source (Rubenstein book, DeBlij glossary, online source: write website URL, etc…)
Resources: Vocab handouts from the Rubenstein, DeBlij, Domash and Knox books, Note: WIKIPEDIA is NOT a completely credible
source – take care when using it, you need to find 2 other sites that agree with Wikipedia in order to use it. Good sources are
listed at www.aphgwurst.wikispaces.com too
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*Bold items are from your textbook,
others will be found in other
resources..
YOU WILL START TO SEE SOME
TERMS AND CONCEPTS SPIRAL
THROUGH THE OUTLINE AND TCMG
LISTS. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE
A CARD FOR THE ITEM, DON’T MAKE
ANOTHER ONE UNLESS YOU WANT
TO. 
YOU STILL HAVE TO KNOW THE
ITEMS FOR THE UNIT QUIZ AND
EXAM AS THEY APPLY IN THE UNIT
WE ARE STUDYING.
CULTURE CONCEPTS
Anthropology
Archaeology
Culture traits
Diffusion
Hearth
Acculturation
Enculturation
Cultural landscape
Culture realm
Cultural adaptation
Cultural core/periphery pattern
Cultural ecology
Cultural identity
Culture Region
• Formal—core, periphery
• Functional—node
• Vernacular (perceptual)
ie regional self-awareness
Cultural Diffusion types
• Expansion—
hierarchical, contagious,
stimulus
• Relocation
Innovation adoption
Maladaptive diffusion
Sequent occupance
Survey systems
FOLK VS POP CULTURE
Assimilation
Folk food
Folk house
Folk songs
Material culture
Popular culture
Traditional architecture
Adaptive strategies
Anglo-American landscape
characteristics
Architectural form
Built environment
Folklore
Nonmaterial culture
LANGUAGE 
Creole language
dialect
Indo-European languages
isogloss
Language
language family, branch and group
Language subfamily
lingua franca
Linguistic diversity
Monolingual/multilingual
Official language
pidgin
Toponymy
Trade language
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TCMG 1112 RELIGION + ETHNICITY/GENDER TERMS:
Terms, Concepts, Models, Geographers – Use notecards
FRONT >
BACK >
HEARTH
A place from which an innovation or
invention originates. (Rubenstein)
Front of card: Term, Concept, Model or Geographer (choose a color pattern and use it for each unit)
Symbol, graphic or hint to help you remember TCMG
Back of card: Geographic definition and source (Rubenstein book, DeBlij glossary, online source: write website URL, etc…)
Resources: Vocab handouts from the Rubenstein, DeBlij, Domash and Knox books, Note: WIKIPEDIA is NOT a completely credible
source – take care when using it, you need to find 2 other sites that agree with Wikipedia in order to use it. Good sources are
listed at www.aphgwurst.wikispaces.com too
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*Bold items are from your textbook,
Polytheism
ETHNICITY + GENDER
others will be found in other
Proselytic religion
Acculturation
resources..
Reincarnation
Adaptive strategy
YOU WILL START TO SEE SOME
Religion (groups, places)
apartheid
TERMS AND CONCEPTS SPIRAL
Religious architectural styles
Assimilation
THROUGH THE OUTLINE AND TCMG
Religious conflict
balkanization
LISTS.
Religious culture hearth
Barrio
IF YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE A
Religious toponym
Centrifugal
CARD FOR THE ITEM, DON’T MAKE
Sacred space
Centripetal
ANOTHER ONE UNLESS YOU WANT
Secularism
Chain migration (as related to
TO. 
Shamanism
ethnicity)
YOU STILL HAVE TO KNOW THE
Sharia law
Cultural adaptation
ITEMS FOR THE UNIT QUIZ AND
Shia
Cultural shatterbelt
EXAM AS THEY APPLY IN THE UNIT
Shintoism
Ethnic cleansing
WE ARE STUDYING.
Sikhism
Ethnic conflict
Sunni
Ethnic enclave
RELIGION
Taoism
Ethnic group
Animism
Theocracy
Ethnic homeland
Branch
Universalizing religion
Ethnic landscape
Buddhism
Zionism
Ethnic neighborhood
Cargo cult pilgrimage
Zoroastrianism
Ethnicity
Caste
Ethnocentrism (Sneetchism )
Confucianism
Ghetto
Denomination
Plural society
enclave
Race
Ethnic religion
Segregation
Exclave
Social distance
Fundamentalism
Geomancy (feng shui)
Gender
Hajj
Dowry death
Hierarchical religion
Enfranchisement
Hinduism
Gender
Interfaith boundaries
Gender gap
Islam
Infanticide
Jainism
Longevity gap
Judaism
Maternal mortality rate
Landscapes of the dead
Monotheism
Mormonism
Muslim Pigrimage
Pilgrimage