UNIT 3 REVIEW
WHAT IS
CULTURAL
GEOGRAPHY
Cultural Geography
• Field of human geography that
analyzes how and why culture is
expressed in different ways in
different places.
KEY TERMS
Cultural Landscape (or built
environment)
• Tangible result of a human group’s
interaction with its environment.
Cultural Diffusion
• Process by which a cultural element
spreads from its hearth across space
and time. There are two forms:
expansion and relocation.
Culture Trait
• Single piece of a culture’s traditions
and practices.
Acculturation
• Occurs when a less-dominant culture
comes into contact with and adopts
traits from a more dominant culture.
RELIGION
Religion
• Set of beliefs and activities created
to help humans celebrate and
understand their place in the world.
Universalizing Religion
• Type of religion that believes that its
truth is the one and only truth and is
applicable to all humans, a belief
often leading to proselytizing and
missionary work.
Ethnic Religion
• Religion that comprises one group of
people or exists in one place and
does not seek converts.
MAJOR UNIVERSALIZING
RELIGIONS
1.
2.
3.
4.
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
Sikhism
MAJOR ETHNIC RELIGIONS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Hinduism
Judaism
Shintoism
Taoism (Daoism)
Confucianism
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE FAMILIES
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Indo-European
Sino-Tibetan
Niger-Congo
Afro-Asiatic
Austronesian
Dravidian
Ethnicity
• Complex identity created by a people
to define their group through actual
or perceived shared culture traits,
such as language, religion, and so
forth.
Gender
• Category of classifying humans
reflecting not just biological but also
social differences between men and
women.
Folk Culture
• Isolated group that has had longlasting culture traits that have not
changed substantially over time.
Popular Culture
• Mass culture that diffuses rapidly.