Ch. 4/7: Folk and Popular Culture/Ethnicity Flashcards
Body of material traits, customary, beliefs, and social forms (traditions of a group)
Culture
Visible elements that a group leaves behind for the future
Material traits
Religion and language
Beliefs
Ethnicity and political institutions
Social forms
Repetitive act
Habit
The repetitive act of a group
Custom
Origin: Anonymous hearths
Diffusion: Hierarchial diffusion
Distribution: Limited interaction
Folk culture
Origin: Product of developed countries and has a traceable origin
Distribution: Influenced by the ability of people to access the material (income)
Popular culture
The sum of the effects on a particular food item of soil, climate, and features of the local environment
Terroir
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
Taboo
Popular food choices are influenced more by _____________ than environmental values
Cultural values
The diffusion of folk housing styles in the U.S. is an example of what?
Relocation diffusion
Examples of material culture
Clothing, food, and shelter
Process of taking and fully understanding into. or ideas
Assimilation
the practice of combining different cultures or beliefs
Syncretism
A “gift” from one family to another; a sign of respect
Dowry
Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular hearth
Ethnicity
Identity with a group that shares a biological ancestor
Race
The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a specific race
Racism
Example of forced international migration
Triangular Slave Trade
Example of Interregional migration
Sharecropping
Example of intraregional migration
Migration to African-American ghettos
The emigration of white people from an area in anticipation in blacks
White Flight
Real estate agents convinced white homeowners to sell their homes near black areas to cause property values to decline
Blockbusting
Physical separation of different races into different geographical areas
Apartheid
An attitude that unifies people together
Centripetal force
An attitude that separated people
Centrifugal force
The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicity
Balkanization
The mass killing of a group in hope of eliminating
Genocide
Thinking one cultural group is better than another
Ethnocentrism
Effort by one country to establish settlements in a territory
Colonialism
A single identifiable material or non-material trait in a culture
`Culture Traits
A direct result of time distnace-decay
Cultural Lag
Culture refuses to accept something because it doesn’t fit
Diffusion Barriers
Process of learning and adopting new beliefs as a result of being put in a new environment (e.g. Nunavut)
Acculturation
