Pretest 3 Flashcards
In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of large and
Heterogeneous groups
Folk cultures are spread primarily by
Relocation diffusion
In recent decades, popular customs have most frequently originated in
More developed countries
Based on what you have read about globalization, you could surmise that the main effect of modern communications on social customs has been to
Increase the similarity of social customs in different locations
When we analyze the patterns of popular culture in our surroundings, we can surmise that
Nodes of innovation are central to the process of hierarchical diffusion
An example of a folk custom used to diffuse information about agriculture is
Vietnamese songs
The spatial distribution of soccer during the twentieth century is an example of
Popular culture
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a
Taboo
The geographer Vidal de la Blache regarded food supply as
Less subject modification than clothing and weapons
The most important house style in the United States since the 1960’s is known as
Neo-eclectic
The trend of globalization has threatened
Popular culture and folk culture relatively equally
Marriage dowries in India reflect
That some families value male children more
People maintain their folk culture despite familiarity with popular culture primarily because of
The high cost of popular customs
The main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group is how
They correspond to the diffusion of free markets across much of the world
A lingua Franca is
A language understood by people who have different native languages
The two largest language families in the world are
Sino-Tibetan & Indo-European
The first speakers of the language that exiled into English were tribes that lived in present day
Denmark and Germany
Which of the following is not a Romance language
Bulgarian
The two most important languages in South America are
Portuguese and Spanish
Colin renfrews research constitutes much of the _____ hypothesis
sedentary farmer
A literary tradition is
The written form of a language
An isogloss is
A boundary between language regions
Marija gimbutas has contributed to the ______ hypothesis
Nomadic warrior
A creolized language is
A mix of indigenous and colonial languages
A pidgin language
Has no native speakers
The language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers in the world is
Mandarin
The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from
Thousands of years of isolation between cultural groups
In the 1700’s, 1800’s and afterward, English diffusion has been strongly related to colonialism and imperialism in many parts of the world because
Conquered people’s wishing to participate in the new government and the increasingly global economy felt pressured to learn English
With respect to the relationship between culture, religion, and the physical environment,
Religious ideas may be responsible for some of the changes people make in the physical environment
Religion is a good example of the tension between globalization and local diversity because
Religion represents core cultural values and beliefs that may conflict with others
The belief in the existence of only one God is
Monotheism
Beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are
Cosmogony
The worlds largest ethnic religion is
Hinduism
Which characteristic distinguishes religion in Latin America from North America
Having a Roman Catholic majority
A relatively small group that has broken away from an established church is a
Sect
Which is a branch of Christianity
Eastern Orthodox
The dominant branch of Islam is
Sunni
The dominant branch of Islam in Iran is
Shiite
Jerusalems geography represents a particularly difficult religious conflict to resolve because
Sacred sites to Jews and Muslims are literally built on top of one another
The most populous ethnic group in the United States is
Latinos/Hispanics
The second most populous ethnic group in the United States is
African Americans
The largest Hispanic/Latino groups In the United States are from which two countries
Puerto Rico and Mexico
Los Angeles has what kind of ethnic distribution
Clustered
Which is the most dramatic change in the geographic distribution of African Americans in the United States
Relocation to northern cities
Which pair of concepts or entities from South Africa and the United States is the best match
Apartheid-“Jim Crow” laws
A nationality is
A group of people tied to a place through legal status and tradition
In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is more likely to vary
From time to time at a given place
