Ch. 4/7: Folk and Popular Culture/Ethnicity

Question 1

Body of material traits, customary, beliefs, and social forms (traditions of a group)

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

Visible elements that a group leaves behind for the future

Answer 2

Material traits

Question 3

Religion and language

Answer 3

Beliefs

Question 4

Ethnicity and political institutions

Answer 4

Social forms

Question 5

Repetitive act

Answer 5

Habit

Question 6

The repetitive act of a group

Answer 6

Custom

Question 7

Origin: Anonymous hearths
Diffusion: Hierarchial diffusion
Distribution: Limited interaction

Answer 7

Folk culture

Question 8

Origin: Product of developed countries and has a traceable origin
Distribution: Influenced by the ability of people to access the material (income)

Answer 8

Popular culture

Question 9

The sum of the effects on a particular food item of soil, climate, and features of the local environment

Answer 9

Terroir

Question 10

A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom

Answer 10

Taboo

Question 11

Popular food choices are influenced more by _____________ than environmental values

Answer 11

Cultural values

Question 12

The diffusion of folk housing styles in the U.S. is an example of what?

Answer 12

Relocation diffusion

Question 13

Examples of material culture

Answer 13

Clothing, food, and shelter

Question 14

Process of taking and fully understanding into. or ideas

Answer 14

Assimilation

Question 15

the practice of combining different cultures or beliefs

Answer 15

Syncretism

Question 16

A “gift” from one family to another; a sign of respect

Answer 16

Dowry

Question 17

Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular hearth

Answer 17

Ethnicity

Question 18

Identity with a group that shares a biological ancestor

Answer 18

Race

Question 19

The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a specific race

Answer 19

Racism

Question 20

Example of forced international migration

Answer 20

Triangular Slave Trade

Question 21

Example of Interregional migration

Answer 21

Sharecropping

Question 22

Example of intraregional migration

Answer 22

Migration to African-American ghettos

Question 23

The emigration of white people from an area in anticipation in blacks

Answer 23

White Flight

Question 24

Real estate agents convinced white homeowners to sell their homes near black areas to cause property values to decline

Answer 24

Blockbusting

Question 25

Physical separation of different races into different geographical areas

Answer 25

Apartheid

Question 26

An attitude that unifies people together

Answer 26

Centripetal force

Question 27

An attitude that separated people

Answer 27

Centrifugal force

Question 28

The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicity

Answer 28

Balkanization

Question 29

The mass killing of a group in hope of eliminating

Answer 29

Genocide

Question 30

Thinking one cultural group is better than another

Answer 30

Ethnocentrism

Question 31

Effort by one country to establish settlements in a territory

Answer 31

Colonialism

Question 32

A single identifiable material or non-material trait in a culture

Answer 32

`Culture Traits

Question 33

A direct result of time distnace-decay

Answer 33

Cultural Lag

Question 34

Culture refuses to accept something because it doesn’t fit

Answer 34

Diffusion Barriers

Question 35

Process of learning and adopting new beliefs as a result of being put in a new environment (e.g. Nunavut)

Answer 35

Acculturation