GEO Midterm 2

Question 1

Pop culture

Answer 1

culture created for consumption by the mass of population: store bought/ multi sourced. E.g. fashion
Culture that is bought
Selling culture – beyond food and clothing: music, video games, movies as well.

Question 2

Folk culture

Answer 2

culture practiced by a small, homogeneous, usually rural group (AKA traditional culture): local/ hand made

Question 3

Globalization Folk Culture

Answer 3

homogenous group – relocation diffusion

Question 4

Globalization Pop Culture

Answer 4

heterogeneous group – hierarchical diffusion (tv shows, movies, papers)

Question 5

material culture

Answer 5

created by humans
* visible, tangible
- houses, clothes, car, fires

Question 6

non-material culture

Answer 6

ideas/ways of thinking that make up a culture
* invisible, intangible
- sexuality, gender, power, ideology

Question 7

commodification of culture

Answer 7

the process of transforming a culture activity into something to be sold; a product for commercial purposes
e.g. Taco Bell/Panda Express

Question 8

globalization

Answer 8

the integration of the entire world into a single economic unit
* movement of money, tech, and culture

Question 9

popular culture

Answer 9

not tied to a particular place; tied to a location based on widespread diffusion
* products designed to appeal to a global market, rather than just one place
* national to International

Question 10

placelessness

Answer 10

when a place loses its uniqueness

Question 11

connections

Answer 11

placelessness is the loss of unique identity due to influence of globalization and popular culture
* becoming more homogenous
* popular culture expanding at the expense of folk culture