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Chapter 4 Key Issue 3-4 Flashcards

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1
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What influences the design of folk housing

A

Climate and local topography

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Who studied different Chinese houses and what did he find

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R.W. McColl
Similar materials: Adobe and timber from poplar trees
Distinct designs attributed to local cultural pref. and local geography

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Kashgar, dunhuang, turpan, yinchuan

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K: 2nd story open patio, river all year long, trees
D: closed courtyard,sloping roofs, rainfall and prox. Of eastern China
T:deep valley, gatherings, dry
Y:tall trees, open courtyard but private because Muslims

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4
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Sacred spaces in folk houses derive from

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Religious or other customary beliefs

Walls,door orientation, corners

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Java, Fiji, Madagascar

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Face south south sea goddess who holds key to earth
Eastern wall sacred
West: most important : NE: most sacred , enter on N seated on N , bed on east facing N

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Laos and Thailand special features

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Staircase Not towards west because death And demons
Sleep so feet fave person in next house
Except children
Yuan and Shan east because of Buddhism

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Us folk housing

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Style of pioneer homes reflected whatever upscale style was in east coast where they migrated from
Cut wood and used it to build

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Fred kniffen three major hearths of folk houses in US

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Mid-A: I house one room deep and two rooms wide
Lower-Chesapeake/tidewater: one story with a steep roof and chimneys at either end
New England: box shaped with central hall

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Us popular housing

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Mid-20 displays popular culture rather than regional influence
Mass produced
Shapes materials details in vogue

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In 1945 housing was … And in 1960 housing was

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After World War Two modern

Neo-eclectic

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Fieldwork

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US has highest regional differences

Style represents time period

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Electronic diffusion of popular culture principal obstacle

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Lack of access to electronic media (income, electricity, service)

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Most important electronic media for at for two reasons

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TV
Popular leisure activity
Most important mechanism for rapidly diffusing population around the world

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Diffusion of TV mid twentieth century

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Simultaneously in many hearths Uk, France, Germany, Japan, Soviet Union, US

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Early 20, mid 20, late 20, early 21st

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Multiple hearths
Us dominates 86% of 37 mill. Sets
Diffused to Europe, only 1/4 in US, more than 1/2 countries had none
Near universal access diminish diff.

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Tv watched in North America, Russia, Southeast Asia, and Europe+China

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Sports, news, fictional, entertainment

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Diffusion of the Internet late 20th century

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Follows pattern of tv but more rapid
1995 US accounted for more than half of users
2011 77% had access to Internet

18
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Tv took how long to diffuse? How long did Internet

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1/2 century, a decade

19
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Diffusion of social media 20th century

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Facebook: 2008 1/3 of users IS
2011 global share decreased to 1/5
Now to a footnote
Twitter: 1/3 US in 2010 second leader is India 
New trend with developing countries
20
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The external threat when it comes to challenges in accessing social media

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Developed countries control the media , cultural imperialism
Japan, UK, US

21
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Leaders of developing countries could view dominance as

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Impressing American values upon viewers such as
Freedom for women
Glorification of youth
Stylized violence
Upward social mobility
22
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News media in developing countries is dominated by, whereas in US

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Government, largely private commercial stations

23
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African and Asian criticize what in US

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Freedom of press, not and equal balanced view of other countries

24
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News gathering capabilities

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Don’t have funds to start own news business

AP and Reuters

25
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Internal threat

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Social media

26
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Limiting access to tv

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Satellites dishes give people access to things otherwise censored by govt.

27
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Some things that government tries to block off and censor

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Pol. Content
Social content
Conflict and security
Internet tools

28
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Marriage in India is challenging

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Cultural values

Instability and violence results

29
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Sustainability challenges for folk culture

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Increased connection with popular makes maintaining century old practices hard AF

30
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Globalization on the landscape equals

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Hard maintaining unique landscape

31
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Global diffusion of pop. Culture beliefs has challenged the

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Subservience of woman to menthol is embedded in some folk cultures

32
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Sustainability problems with popular culture #1

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Adversely impact environment
Pollution if landscape:Uniform landscapes to generate recognition and higher consumption
Gold courses take environment drastically

33
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2 issue

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Depletion of natural resources

Demand for animal products and raw materials

34
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Golf became popular in what time period, why,

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20th century

Extra leisure time

35
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What do infirm global landscapes rely on and how has appearance changed, who are the biggest customers

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Large scale mobility like cars
Used to be gaudy now subdued
Separate sign for reuse of building
Local residents

36
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How is the environmental coat it’s being affected by folk and pop.

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Popular equals accumulation of waste

Folk is practices like burning grass or over hunting

37
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What does the demand for skins of endangered animals cause

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Ecological unbalance

38
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Meat consumption explain

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Unnecessary step of meat being fed 10 kilos of grain when we could just eat 10 kilos
Many undernourished which questions this practice

39
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Recycling resources needs what two things in order to control it

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Time and money

40
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Pickup and processing or manufacturing

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Collected and sorted:
Curbside program
Drop off center
Buy back center 
Deposit program
Materials manufactured into new products:
Paper 
Plastic
Glass
Aluminum
41
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Environmental influences on folk housing

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Available resources like wood and brick ( Europe and South America)

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