4. Local, Popular, And Cultural Landscapes

Question 1

culture

Answer 1

is a group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people.

Question 2

folk culture

Answer 2

is small, incorporates a homogeneous population, is typically rural, and is cohesive in cultural traits

Question 3

popular culture

Answer 3

large, incorporates heterogeneous population, is typically urban, and experiences quickly changing cultural traits

Question 4

local culture

Answer 4

is a group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others

Question 5

material culture

Answer 5

of a group of people includes things they construct, such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance and food

Question 6

nonmaterial culture

Answer 6

includes beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people

Question 7

Hierarchical diffusion

Answer 7

can occur through a hierarchy of places

Question 8

hearth

Answer 8

the point of origin

Question 9

customs

Answer 9

is a practice that a group of people routinely follow.
-to sustain a local culture, the people must retain their customs. the customs change in small ways over time, but they are maintained despite the onslaught of popular culture

Question 10

cultural appropriation

Answer 10

process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit

Question 11

neolocalism

Answer 11

seeking out the regional culture and reinvigorating it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world

Question 12

ethnic neighborhoods

Answer 12

a world built apart, where local cultures can practice their customs within a major city

Question 13

commodification

Answer 13

process through which something that was previously not regarded as an object to be bought or sold becomes an object that can be bought, sold, and traded in the world market

Question 14

authenticity

Answer 14

an “authentic” local culture does not fit into a single experience or image; rather, and “authentic” local culture is one that is complex and not stereotyped

Question 15

distance decay

Answer 15

the likelihood of diffusion decreases as time and distance from the hearth increases

Question 16

time-space compression

Answer 16

the likelihood of diffusion depends on the connectedness (communication and transportation technologies) amoung places

Question 17

reterritorialization

Answer 17

a term referring to a process in which people start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and place and making it their own

Question 18

cultural landscapes

Answer 18

the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape. reflects the values, norms, and aesthetics of a culture

Question 19

placelessness

Answer 19

loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape to the point that one place looks like the next

Question 20

global-local continuum

Answer 20

this notion emphasizes that what happens at one scale is not independent of what happens at other scales.

Question 21

glocalization

Answer 21

people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes