Ch.4 Fold And Pop Cultute Flashcards
Custom
Repetition of an act to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act
-A habit that has been widely adopted by a group of people
Habit
- Repetitive is the act performed by one individual
- Has not been adopted by most of the population societ
Folk culture
- isolated
- small group
- relocation diffusion
- lack technology and communication
- heterogeneous proportion of the rest of the society
Pop-culture
- large groups dispersed
- Heirarchical diffusion
- spreads through technology
- more homogeneous
Religion
- can be isolated within one small region
- ex. In region of Himalayas four different types of religion
- most animism found in Africa
Music
- folk music tell story about environment lifestyle etc.
- pop music doesn’t tell story they are all similar
Modern folk culture
- Top example the Amish
- less developed by American standards
- beliefs and skills passed down
- personal choice
- this personal choice of continuing the Amish is so ingrained that they don’t give into popular culture
Modern pop culture
- top example clothing. Jeans
- can go anywhere and find blue jeans and a the shirt in every country
- that’s because we in US go to other countries best example military
- spread technology
Folk clothing
- environment or what’s there
- Dutch clogs for wetness
- fur boots for cold
- can also be based on religion
- women in southwest Asia and North Africa wear Muslim outfits and discouraged form western style
- women in europe discouraged to wear Muslim wear
Pop clothing
- determined by occupation and income
- people in medicine wear scrubs
- not determined by environment but trends
- athletes wear uniforms
- income – jeans or other types of clothing
- you can pay $300 or $15 for a pair jeans
- The only thing that differs between two products is the branding-Nike Ray-Ban’s true religion
- if you have more money you can spend it updating your wardrobe more frequently
- close made in Paris and Milan manufactured by Asia and sent to NA quickly
Folk food
- ever you can grow there
- Asia – rice
- Europe quick frying food fuel shortage
- North Europe use wood
- Asia – soybeans take long time so take out what they can
- can be influenced by religion and culture as well
- in folk cultures certain foods are eaten because their natural properties are perceived to enhance qualities desirable by society
- example Paraguay it’s Jack wires and Staggs and bulls to make them strong and brave. Hens and tortoises make them coward
- Japan avoid otters forgetful animals memory loss
- Chad woman don’t eat chicken or goat before becoming pregnant. Animals cause childbirth pain and child abnormal. Avoid antelopes with twisted horns deformity
Pop food
- regional differences
- alcohol
- not high in Utah Mormons don’t have it because of the religious taboo. Hi in Nevada because of gambling
- South Baptist taboo against alcohol
- South prefers tortilla chips because of Hispanic culture in Southwest
- influenced more by cultural than environmental
- Cola preferences influenced by politics in Russia
- under communism government may deal with Pepsi after and of communism Russians changed to coke
- muslims band products so preferred Pepsi
Pop-culture wine
- Best example of terrior
- Earth affects the way that the product case
- well near Mediterranean and California Italy and France where it is moderately cold winters and hot summers
- topography – hillside, or near lake
- soil – affects the product, coarse and well drained
- distribution of wine production shows that diffusion of popular custom depends less on environment them on beliefs and material traits to excepting those customs
- Wind made where people are good at making it and can afford it
- discouraged and regions of the world dominated by religions other than Christianity
Folk houses
- what’s around you would in East Clay in Southwest America
- sacred space
- Thailand houses cannot be linear
- Laos – feet are dirt, Orient furniture where feet face feet of neighbors. If children live close to parents was face in respect
- three historical folk houses in US
- mid Atlantic
- New England
- Low Chesapeake
- would preferred for houses easy to build with
- brick in hot dry climates
- all houses in region of china can use same building material and same objective, but have different designs
Pop-culture houses
- Houses used to be Folk but now all suburban
- all personal choice
Name the US house types and in the air as they occurred in
- modern
- minimal traditional 1935–1950
- ranch 1935–1975
- contemporary 1940–1980 - split level 1955–1975
- shed 1960- present
- Neo eclectic
- mansard 1960 – present
- Neo Tudor 1965 – present
- Neo colonial 1950 – present
- Neo French 1970 – present
X material culture
A collection of social customs produces a groups material culture example jeans represent American informality and a badge of youth
Difference between culture and customs
-custom used to denote a specific element of material culture such as wearing jeans where as culture refers to the groups entire collection of customs
Two locations have some more cultural beliefs of objects and intuitions because people can bring their culture when they migrate. Difference emerges when 2 groups have limited interaction one mountain and another and Himalayas
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The two basic factors that help explain different distributions of popular and folk cultures
Process of origin and pattern of diffusion
Origin
- folk culture has anonymous hearths anonymous sources unknown date multiple hearths
- pop-culture most often product of developed countries. Traceable to specific person or corporation
Pop music
- originated around 1900
- at that time made popular music entertainment in North America and Europe was the variety show music Hall in UK and vaudeville US
- music iindustry was developed in New York called Tinpan Alley to provide songs for music Hall and vaudeville
- written by specific person for purpose of being sold
- technical skill and manipulation
- pop musicians have more connections with performers of similar styles
- now with globalization of pop music musicians less tied to the culture of particular places and instead increasingly clustered in communities where other creative artists stay regardless of particular style
- in US New York and lost Angeles attract largest number of musicians
- Nashville has largest concentration of musicians on the number of musicians there is compared to a much smaller population van in New York and Los Angeles
- Nashville contains country and gospel
Industrial technology
Allows uniformly production of objects in large quantities example iPods T-shirts pizzas
-leisure time has increased as a result of the widespread change in the labor force from agricultural work to manufacturing and service
Diffusion of pop music
- Began in the 1940s when Armed Forces radio broadcast of music to American soldiers who were fighting in World War II
- Western dance music especially techno music and house music diffused from US to Europe
Distribution
- principal obstacle to access his lack of income
- combination of local physical and cultural factors influence distributions of full culture
- example and Himalayas distinctive use physical environment emerge among neighbor and cultural groups that are isolated
- buddhists in the north, Hindus in the south ,Muslims in the west, animists in South East Asia
- folk customs are influenced by cultural institutions like religion and by environment like climate landforms vegetation
Buddhists
North
paint divine figures like months and Saints
Figures bizarre or terrifying reflecting in hospitable environment
Hindus
- South
- scenes from every day life
- sometimes portray deity in domestic scene and the present regions violent and extreme climate
Muslims
- West
- show beautiful plants and flowers because Muslim faith prohibits displaying animate objects
- do not depict harsh climate
Animists
- southeast Asia Myanmar
- symbols and designs that derived from the religion rather than from environment
Folk Music invention
- Chinese legend invented when temper sent someone to cut bamboo poles that would produce sound matching the call of the Phoenix bird
- in reality folksongs usually originate anonymously and are transmitted orally