Chapter 4 Test

Question 1

What are the seven aspects of culture?

Answer 1

Customs and traditions, 
arts and entertainment, 
religion, 
language, 
economic systems, 
government, 
social organizations

Question 2

Where is folk culture commonly found?

Answer 2

Often found in small,isolated, and homogeneous groups

Question 3

What does folk culture help you get a sense of?

Answer 3

Place

Question 4

In what type of culture is the hearth commonly known? Which one is unknown?

Answer 4

In folk culture, the hearth of a specific trait is often unknown. In popular culture, the hearth is often known

Question 5

What is the goal of most examples of popular culture and how will they achieve their goal?

Answer 5

To make money through widespread diffusion

Question 6

What does popular culture give you a sense of?

Answer 6

Placelessness

Question 7

What did making moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Virginia lead to?

Answer 7

NASCAR

Question 8

Define culture

Answer 8

Believes, social forms, and traits that constitute the distinct traditions of a particular group of people

Question 9

Folk culture turns into popular culture by what?

Answer 9

Diffusion

Question 10

Folk cultures a often influenced by what?

Answer 10

The environment

Question 11

What does popular culture do to the environment?

Answer 11

It imposes itself on the physical environment

Question 12

What is material culture?

Answer 12

Artifacts: the physical objects that define a culture

Question 13

What is non material culture?

Answer 13

Beliefs, values, patriotism, and laws

Question 14

What are customs?

Answer 14

Repetitive acts a culture does that becomes a characteristic of that specific group of people (ex: handshakes)

Question 15

Why is folk culture slow to diffuse?

Answer 15

A lack of technology and no intent to make money

Question 16

Why does popular culture spread so quickly?

Answer 16

Due to contagious diffusion, the Internet and mass media. It is intended to make a profit so ads too

Question 17

What are some sports that have evolved from folk cultural traditions?

Answer 17

Cricket, soccer, baseball, volleyball, and football

Question 18

What are taboos?

Answer 18

Restrictions on certain behaviors imposed by local social customs

Question 19

What happens when a major company wants to have a store in an unfamiliar country?

Answer 19

They have to accept the local customs and adjust their stores,products, and ads in that country accordingly

Question 20

Where is Bhutan?

Answer 20

Between China and India

Question 21

What does Bhutan have more of than soldiers?

Answer 21

They have more monks than soldiers

Question 22

How many channels can the people in Bhutan get and how much does it cost?

Answer 22

45 channels for $5 a month which is the same price of a bag of dry red chili peppers

Question 23

What program did the people of Bhutan not like?

Answer 23

Wrestling

Question 24

What was a positive affect of TV in Bhutan?

Answer 24

Makes them realize how good they have it and how much violence the rest of the world has

Question 25

When was the first TV installed in Bhutan?

Answer 25

1999

Question 26

Define assimilation

Answer 26

The process in which people lose their original cultural traits when they come into contact with another more dominant culture.

Question 27

What’s an example of assimilation?

Answer 27

Native tribes in north America

Question 28

What is acculturation?

Answer 28

When people adopt some of the cultural traits of another group, but not entirely (you can still see some of their original culture)

Question 29

Who are the Amish, where did they first settle, and what are some of their taboos?

Answer 29

They’re Christians who fled European persecution in the 1700s, and they are resisting assimilation to maintain folk customs and traditions. Some of their cubbies include: electricity, water conveniences/technology, and higher education

Question 30

What are two necessities of life that demonstrate the influence of the environment on culture?

Answer 30

Food and shelter

Question 31

What are some common tendencies of folk culture when it comes to using their environment to provide food shelter?

Answer 31

They tend to use their environment to meet their needs – locally grown and/or produced food, and their housing uses local/natural resources

Question 32

What are some common tendencies of popular culture when it comes to using their environment to provide food and shelter?

Answer 32

Tends to use resources that have been widely diffused, processed, and manufactured. Their houses don’t blend in with the natural landscape and are often “cookie-cutter houses “

Question 33

Who identified three major folk housing styles in the US?

Answer 33

Geographer Fred Kniffen

Question 34

What are the three major folk housing styles in the United States?

Answer 34

1) New England
2) Middle Atlantic
3) Lower Chesapeake/tidewater

Question 35

How do folk cultures build houses?

Answer 35

They use what their environment gives them (like sod houses, Adobe houses, and log houses)

Question 36

What does modern housing make the United States look like?

Answer 36

Makes you not able to tell where you are (Placelessness) because you can order the building materials from all over the world and everything is uniform

Question 37

When do popular cultural traits, customs, taboos, and traditions blend together?

Answer 37

They often blend together in sports, entertainment, what we eat, and how we dress

Question 38

Where and when did blue jeans originate?

Answer 38

It originated when miners needed more durable clothing and it became a pop culture icon in the 1950s and 1960s