Chapter 4 Vocab: Folk&Pop Culture

Question 1

folk culture (V)

Answer 1

traditionally practiced by small groups in isolated rural area

Question 2

popular culture (V)

Answer 2

practiced in large societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics

Question 3

daily necessities (C)

Answer 3

food, clothes, and shelter. all cultures have these, but in distinctive ways.

Question 4

leisure activites (C)

Answer 4

arts and recreation. each group has their own ideas of these.

Question 5

habit (V)

Answer 5

repetitive act that a particular individual preforms

Question 6

custom (V)

Answer 6

repetitive act of a group, preformed to the extent that it’s a characteristic of the group

Question 7

culture (V)

Answer 7

collection of material traits, customary beliefs, and social forms that form tradition of a group

Question 8

hearth (V)

Answer 8

center of innovation, where an idea begins

Question 9

material culture (V)

Answer 9

includes clothing, food, and shelter and varies with each culture.

Question 10

terroir (V)

Answer 10

contribution of a location’s distinctive physical features to the way food tastes

Question 11

taboo (V)

Answer 11

a restriction on behavior imposed by social customs

Question 12

compare the origin, diffusion, and distribution of folk and popular culture (C)

Answer 12

Folk culture - likely an unknown hearth and diffuses slowly through migration
Pop culture - likely invented/diffused quickly using modern communications

Question 13

compare the characteristics of folk and popular music (C)

Answer 13

pop music - global diffusion because of artist/style connections
folk music - less likely to be widely known, only within one/a few groups

Question 14

describe how sports have been transformed from folk to popular culture (C)

Answer 14

sports that originated within a smaller folk culture have since been distributed globally into pop culture

Question 15

compare reasons for distribution of clothing styles in folk and pop culture (C)

Answer 15

folk clothing - likely will respond to the environment factors and cultural values
pop clothing - vary more in time than in place

Question 16

understand reasons for folk food and taboos (C)

Answer 16

folk food culture is very closely linked to environmental conditions cultural values

Question 17

describe regional variations in popular food preferences (C)

Answer 17

popular food displays regional variations

Question 18

understand factors that influence patterns of folk housing (C)

Answer 18

folk housing styles responds to the environment and cultural factors

Question 19

understand variations in time and space of housing in the united states (C)

Answer 19

US housing has roots in folk culture but newer housing displays features of popular culture

Question 20

why is access to folk and popular culture unequal? (C)

Answer 20

pop cultures diffuses though electronic media. in the 20th century, TV was the dominant format. In the 21st, social media is expanding

Question 21

describe the origin, diffusion, and distribution of TV around the world. (C)

Answer 21

TV diffused during the 20th century from the US to Europe and then to developing countries, who have less consistent access.

Question 22

compare the diffusion of the internet and social media with the diffusion of TV. (C)

Answer 22

diffusion of the internet and social media has followed the pattern of TV, but at a much faster rate. Less developed countries still have less access.

Question 23

understand external and internal threats to folk culture posed by electronic media (C)

Answer 23

folk culture may be threatened by the dominance of pop culture in the media and by decreasing ability to control people’s access to the media

Question 24

summarize challenges for folk culture form diffusion of pop culture (C)

Answer 24

pop culture threatens traditional elements of cultural identity in folk culture.

Question 25

summarize the two principle ways that pop culture can adversely affect the environment (C)

Answer 25

pop culture can deplete scarce resources and pollute the landscape

Question 26

summarize major sources of waste and the extent to which each is recycled (C)

Answer 26

paper is the principle source of solid waste before recycling, but plastics and food waste are the leading sources after recycling