Question | Answer |
three main clusters are home to about 60% of the world's people. Where are they? | Europe. Indian Subcontinent. East Asia. |
What is the RNI of the world? What if the RNI were negative? | 1.2%, population would be decreasing |
Tonybee's theory | challenge and response; environmental determinist |
Kenyan's theory | Propinquity theory; proximity/nearness, time of dryness forced people to live in close proximity to each other near oasis's; environmental awareness |
Braidwood's theory | Cultural culmination theory; mutation, 2 types of wheat: moral- stood straight, held seed tightly immoral- loose and not held tightly; harvested moral wheat b/c most efficient; stumbled upon agriculture accidently |
Carl Sauer | 1) agriculture was independently invented by different people in different places; 2) women discovered agriculture; 3) people with leisure time developed agriculture 4) necessity not mother of invention |
other theories | 1) food shortage theory- shortage of food so people grew it 2) margin theory - agriculture developed where hard to obtain food 3) climate change- after ice age, agriculture began |
landscapes of popular culture | consumption - malls; leisure/amenity- perks; Elitist - high end golf courses; immorality - las vegas, adult stores, highly debatable |
problems with diffusion of popular culture | 1) will folk culture survive? - they are adapting too, people are always changing 2) dominance of western perspectives 3) less responsive to environmental diversity |
basic beliefs of anabaptists/plain people | 1) adult baptism 2) shunning (varies) 3)social separation from world 4) reject violence and weapons 5) refusal to swear oaths 6) submission (humility and simplicity) |
inherent value hypothesis | We do not follow-some languages are inherently more attractive than others; certain ways of being "nicely spoken" are biologically wired into us. |
social connotations hypothesis | follow. favor a view proposing that the pleasantness or unpleasantness of a language variety is a time honored social convention; pleasantness of a language variety are contingent on the social attributes of the speakers of it; |