Page 117 - General Knowledge

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2019

 Culture is the major way in which human beings adapt to their environments.
 Culture is the way of life of a group of people, the complex of shared concepts and patterns
of learning behavior handed down from one generation to the next through the means of
language and imitation.
 Accumulation of thoughts values and objects; it is the social heritage acquired by us from
proceeding generations through learning, as distinguished from the biological heritage which
is passed on to us automatically through the genes.
Characteristics of culture
 The characteristics of the culture are continuous and cumulative.

 It is consistent and integrated.
 It is adaptive and dynamic.
 It is gratifying and it varies from society to society.
 The culture is super organic ideational.
Themes in Cultural Geography
Culture Region
 A formal or functional region within which common cultural characteristics prevail.
 A nuclear area within which an advanced and distinctive set of culture traits, ideas, and
technologies develops and from which there is diffusion of those characteristics and
the cultural landscape features they imply.
 A culture region is a portion of Earth‘s surface that has common cultural elements.
 Identifying and mapping culture regions are significant tasks because they show us where
particular culture traits or cultural communities are located.
 Culture regions, like cultures themselves, display considerable variety.
 For starters, any number of cultural components may be used to define culture regions.
 Culture regions can be found in urban, suburban, or rural settings. Many cities contain ethnic
neighborhoods. Basically, these are urban culture regions whose borders are defined by the
locations of specific cultural communities.
Cultural Diffusion
 The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
Relocation diffusion
 The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another.
Cultural Ecology
 Cultural ecology is the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments.
 Human adaptation refers to both biological and cultural processes that enable a population
to survive and reproduce within a given or changing environment.
Cultural Integration

 Cultural integration is a form of cultural exchange in which one group assumes the beliefs,
practices and rituals of another group without sacrificing the characteristics of its
own culture.
Cultural landscape

 A cultural landscape is defined as "a geographic area, including both cultural and natural
resources and the wildlife or domestic animals therein, associated with a historic event,
activity, or person or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values."

113 | P a g e shop.ssbcrack.com