A.
Concepts of culture
1.
Traits and complexes
2.
Diffusion
3.
Acculturation
4.
Cultural Regions and Realms
B.
Cultural
differences
1.
Language
2.
Religion
3.
Ethnicity
4.
Gender
5.
Popular and folk culture
C.
Environmental impact of cultural attitudes and practices
D.
Cultural landscapes and cultural identity
1.
Values and preferences
2.
Symbolic landscapes and sense of place
Study Questions (AP Student Companion):
1.
Define culture.
Provide some examples explaining the process of cultural diffusion.
2.
Why is the mosaic of language and religion of interest and
value to the cultural geographer?
3.
What are the major components that make up the definition of
language?
4.
What is standard language?
5.
Study the map of Europe (Figure 8.3, p.116) and explain how it
is a diffusion model.
6.
What are some of the theories of language diffusion? What analysis has Colin Renfrew, the
British scholar, brought to the interpretation of the search for the source for
a “superfamily” of languages?
7.
What is toponomy?
What does it reveal about the culture of a place?
8.
Why are place names categorized?
9.
Define religion.
What are some ways religions manifest themselves within a culture?
10.
Where are the source areas of the world’s major belief
systems? Explain how they are
diffused.
11.
Provide examples to explain the differences between global and
regional religions.
12.
What is secularization?
Why is it a topic of inquiry for human geographers?
13.
Describe some of the cultural dimensions of some key gender
issues that have geographic implications.
14.
Describe how a cultural landscape can also be a symbolic
landscape. Explain how such
landscapes relate to popular and folk culture.
15.
Provide some examples illustrating how culture and environment
interact. Assess some positive and
negative aspects of that interaction.
1.
acculturation (36, 425-429)
2.
animism (159)
3.
conquest and agricultural theories (126-28)
4.
contagious diffusion (25)
5.
cultural diffusion (20, 21-23)
6.
cultural environments (20)
7.
cultural landscape (20, 21-23)
8.
cultural perception (20, 27-31)
9.
culture (R-17)
10.
culture heaths (20, 23-24)
11.
culture realms (19)
12.
culture regions (19)
13.
culture traits (17, 19)
14.
folk culture (429)
15.
gender gap (440-441)
16.
multilingualism (137-143)
17.
popular culture (429)
18.
racism (423-424)
19.
standard language (112)
· Lecture/Discussion
of Text, Chapters 8-13
· Discussion
of study questions
· “Cactus,
Cowboys, and Coyotes: The Southwest Culture Region”, Human Geography
in Action, Chapter 2
· “Tracking
the Aids Epidemic: Diffusion Through Space and Time”, Human
Geography in Action, Chapter 3
· “The
Global Linguistic Mosaic”, AP
Student Companion, Activity 3
· “The
Geography of Religion”, AP
Student Companion, Activity 4
· Read
and discuss “The Legacy of Names”, by Greg Breining published in
the
Minnesota Conservation Volunteer
in January-February 2001
· Free
Response Question #3
· Classroom
Activities Assignments