Chapter 4 - Culture Flashcards
What is culture?
It is a group of learned behavior patterns that are characteristic of members of a society
What is material culture?
It includes things such as sport, clothing, etc.
What is nonmaterial culture?
It includes beliefs, practices, etc.
What is popular culture?
It includes large, heterogeneous populations that experience quickly changing cultural traits (techno music culture)
What is folk culture?
It includes small, homogeneous, rural populations
What is local culture?
It is a group of people in a place who see themselves as a community and share their customs and traits
Why is local culture typically used instead of folk culture?
It is less limiting as opposed to folk culture, where one would have to see if a culture has the classifications to be folk culture
What is hierarchical diffusion?
It is the spreading of a trend from one key node to other people or places
What is contagious diffusion?
It is the fast spread of a trend throughout an entire population (acronym such as LOL, which previously did not exist)
What is the hearth?
It is the point of origin for a trend or culture
What is assimilation?
It is the process of assimilating a culture into the dominant culture
What is a custom?
It is a practice that people routinely follow
What is cultural appropriation?
It is the process by which other cultures acquire a particular culture’s traditions for their own benefit (private companies using traditional medicine to gain money)
What is neolocalism?
It is seeking out one’s original culture and reinvigorating it (Lindsborg, AKA Little Sweden, Kansas)
What is an ethnic neighborhood?
It is a neighborhood where people are able to maintain their local cultures in an urban environment (Jews in Brooklyn)
