AP Human Geo (APHuG) LoFi Unit 3: Culture Concepts

Culture shapes how people live each day

Shared beliefs guiding the human way

Values and norms show what is right

Traditions passed through history's light

Language, religion, food, and dress

Cultural traits we can assess

Groups develop identities

Shared across communities

Culture spreads through space and time

Shared ideas that help define

How people live across the land

Culture shapes what we understand

Material culture, things we create

Homes, tools, clothing that demonstrate

Nonmaterial beliefs we share

Customs, values everywhere

Ethnocentrism judges cultures by our own frame

Cultural relativism studies without that claim

Geographers analyze these signs

To see how culture defines