Culture review Flashcards
Establishing/manufacturing a hearth
Hearth: birthplace of a culture
Opinion leaders start a trend and that starts a culture which diffuses from them/media creators.
Opinion leaders
People who start trends
Hierarchical diffusion
When a culture or trait diffuses downward from one hearth or trend setter.
-Fashion
-Cultural icons (musicians, artists, etc.)
Contagious diffusion
Requires direct contact to diffuse to other people.
-Diseases
-Fidgets
Stimulus diffusion
Cultures play catch up, when a culture adopts something new and others follow.
-McDonalds grilled chicken wraps (Burger King and Wendy’s now has it).
Relocation diffusion
When you physically move the hearth itself, the people move to a different place and move the hearth with them.
Reterritorialization
Taking popular culture and fitting it in with your local culture, making it your own.
-K-Pop
-Christian rap
How does popular culture diffuse today?
Popular culture diffuses through the internet/social media.
What are the main differences between folk and popular culture?
Folk culture-homogenous, rural, small, diffuses through tradition (passed down), stays the same.
Popular culture: heterogeneous, urban, large, diffuses quickly/changes quickly.
Assimilation
When an indigenous culture group is completely absorbed by the popular culture, they lose all aspects of their folk or local culture.
NATIVE AMERICANS (on test)
Acculturation
Indigenous or folk culture adopts only certain aspects of the popular culture.
Customs
Routines followed by a culture, how folk culture sustain themselves.
Cultural appropriation
When you take someone else’s culture and use it to your own benefit.
DREAM CATCHER (on test)
Little Sweden
In Kansas, an ethnic neighborhood that does Sweden things.
Neocalism
Bringing local culture to a new place.
LITTLE SWEDEN (on test)
Cultural commodification
When you make something that can be bought or sold from a folk culture, make a culture that can be bought or sold. Leads to stereotyping, cultural appropriation and lack of authenticity.
LOST CITY AND IRISH PUB IN DUBAI (on test)
Authenticity
How true to the real thing it is.
Unauthentic
-Trader Joe’s (Mings)
-Irish pub in Dubai
-Lost city theme park
Authentic
-Little Sweden
Hasidic Jewish Community
Folk culture that sustains in an urban environment, strict adherence in their customs.
Cultural convergence
When cultures come together, folk/local culture is infused with popular culture.
Time space compression (convergence)
How the world is becoming smaller due to connectivity/technology/communications.
INTERNET MADE THE WORLD SMALLER
Globalization
Interconnectedness in the world. taking global concepts/cultures in a global place.
-Eiffel tower in Vegas
Placelessness
Everything begins to look the same in the landscape, loses its uniqueness.
Global-local continuum
When you have a global culture in the context of the local, language, language is probably different.
-McDonald’s menu changes to the language they speak in the place.
Cultural homogenity
Everyone practices the culture or looks the same.
Culture imperialism
spread or advance of one culture at the expense of others or imposition on other cultures which it modifies, replaces, or destroys.
Ethnic neighborhoods/where
People of a certain culture in one community.
Urban locations
If u were to go to Denmark had english signs and also had danish, What does that do?
Promote the use of the local culture.
How does english spread?
Technology/internet
English force rules irish.
Idk it’s on the test**
Image of two cities side by side
Stimulus
How do you see gender and ethnic identity in these two cities?
How has tech impacted these cities?
Globalization- leads to placelessness
Time space conversion/compression/internet
Diffusion of culture through global cities
Assimilation/Acculturation
