Chapter 4 and 6 quizz! Flashcards
What is a culture
A culture is a group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people
1. People may call themselves a culture
2. other people can label a certain group of people as a culture
Folk Culture
It is small, it incorporates a homogeneous population, is typically rural and is cohesive in cultural traits. (Most cultures fit between this AIms to preserve old practices and refuses modern trends
Popular Culture
Large heterogeneous population. Typically urban. and experiences changing cultural traits. (Most cultures fit between this)
- This culture can diffuse very quickly
- main paths of diffusion are transportation, marketing, and communication networks
Local Culture
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
They rely on religoin and belief systems to maintain
They face pressure from larger cultur toq
Similar to folk but different
Material Culture
Things they construct such as art houses, clothing sports
Non material culture
beliefs, practices, aesthetics (what is attractive), and values
Hierarchical diffsuion
Fashion trens and stuff spreading from the most connected
Assimilation
When a group of people adopt the cultural norms of a dominant society
Customs
Local cultures r sustained through this
A practice that a group of people routinely follow.
People have customs on all parts of life like dancing eating etc
What are the two goals local cultures have
Harrison was the one who discovred it
He finds that they typically keep other cultures out and keeping their culture in
FEX: A local culture creating boundaries around itself in order to avoid contamination
Cultural appropration
Is they are making fun of it it is cultural appropration
Anabptist groups
Anabaptist groups are people who primarily follow god. GOD FIRST NOT GOVERNMENT
Anabaptist groups are found inn rural places.
Anabaptist groups fled to rural areas to live alone and apart and avoid prosectuion
Ethnic Neighborhoods
Migrants who gather and live with each other in concentrated areas
Like Hasidic Jews in brooklyn
New York City China Town
Commodification
The process of something being given value.
A cultures jewerely and clothing
Authenticity
Is it real, accuracy
Time space conpression
How quickly innovation diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are through transportation and communication technologies
Opinion Leaders
People in social networks who have millions of followers, who help diffuse new ideas
Reterrirotrailization
A term referring to when 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
Like china soccer changed to america in their culture
Cultural Landscape
How people modify their a physical landscape in a way that reflects their own culture
- Agriculture
- Economic Activity
- Religion
- Linguisitc Characters
- Sequence Occupants
- Traditional Architecture
Placelessness
The losss of uniqueness to a place
Global - Local Continuum
What happens at one scale is not dependent on what happens at the next scale
Frenchification
Promoting French and using it when interacting with other parts of the world
What is langauge
A fundamental element of local and national culture
A set of sounds and symbols that is used for communication.
An integral part of culture
Mutual Intelligibility
Two people understanding each other when speaking.
However the argument goes that this is impossible because two languages will never be able to understand each other.
However two dialects can come to a mutual consensus
Yet Linguists have rejected this as strongly as geographers reject enevrionmental determinism.
