chapter 4

Question 1

culture

Answer 1

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

Question 2

folk culture

Answer 2

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

Question 3

popular culture

Answer 3

popular culture is large, incorporates heterogeneous populations, is typically urban, and experiences quickly changing cultural traits.

Question 4

local culture

Answer 4

A local culture is a group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who shares 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

The material culture of a group of people include things they construct, such vas art, houses, clothing, sports, dance and foods.

Question 6

nonmaterial culture

Answer 6

nonmaterial culture includes belief, practices, aesthetic (what they see as attactive), and values of a group of people.

Question 7

assimilation

Answer 7

During the 1800s and into the 1900s, the USgovernment had a official policy of assimilation. It wanted to assimilate indigenous peoples into the dominant culture in order to make American indians into Americans rather than indians.

Question 8

custom

Answer 8

A custom is a practice that a group of people routinely follow.

Question 9

culture appropriation

Answer 9

culture appropriation is the process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit.

Question 10

neolocalism

Answer 10

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

Question 11

ethnic neighborhood

Answer 11

Some local culturres have successfully built a world apart, a place to practice their customs, within a major city by constructing tight-knit ethnic neighborhoods.

Question 12

commodification

Answer 12

the process through which something (a name, a goods, a idea or even a person) that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought or sold becomes an object that can be bought, sold and traded in the world is market is called commodification .. see ebay

Question 13

authenticity

Answer 13

When local cultures or customs are commodified, usually one image or experience is typecast as the authentic” image or that culture, and it is that image or experience that the tourist or buyer desires.

Question 14

distance decay

Answer 14

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

Question 15

time-space compression

Answer 15

the likelihood of diffusion depends on the connectedness (in communiations and transportation technologies) among places.

Question 16

reterritorialization

Answer 16

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 17

culture landscape

Answer 17

the tension between globalization popular culture and local culture can be seen in the culture landscape, the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape.

Question 18

placelessness

Answer 18

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

Question 19

global-local continuum

Answer 19

each town center is designed to make you think of all things American and to feel immediately ‘home” in the place. cultural borrowing and mixing is happening all around the world.

Question 20

glocalization

Answer 20

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