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Chapter 4
Folk and Popular Culture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is a habit? | A habit is a repetive act that a particular individual performs. |
| What is a custom? | A custom is a repetitive act of a group, perfomed to the extent that it becomes characteristics of the group. |
| What is an example of a habit? | One particular person wears jeans to class everyday. |
| What is an example of a custom? | American university students wear jeans to class everyday. |
| What is an example of folk culture? | Folk culture may include a custom such as wearing a sarong in Malaysia, or wearing a Sari in India. |
| Where is folk culture found? | Traditionally practiced by small,homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas. |
| what is an example of popular culture? | In the 1970's pop culture included bell bottom jeans, flower power, and peace signs. |
| where is popular culture found? | Found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits. |
| How is the scale of territory covered by a folk culture diffrent from a scale covered by a popular culture? | It is typically much smaller. |
| How is folk culture more likely to vary? | From place to place. |
| How is popular culture more like;y to vary? | From time to time. |
| What are the characteristics of folk music? | Folk songs tell a story or convey information about daily activities such as family, life-cylce events or events such as storms and earth quakes. |
| what are the characteristics of popular music? | Popular music is written by specific individuals for the purpose of being sold to a large number of people. |
| How is popular music diffrent from folk music? | Popular music displays a high degree of technical skill an is frequently capable of being performed only in a studio with electric equipment. |
| Where did Amnish culture originate, and how did it deffuse to the United States? | Bern, Switerland;In northern France, and the Palatinate region of the south western Germany because of religious freedom |
| In what ways is Amish culture distinct from the popular culture of the United States? | Amish communities retained their traditional customs, European immigrant adopted new ones. |
| What is happening to the Amish in the United States today? | They are selling their farms and moving to Kentucky. |
| How was soccer transformed from a folk custom into popular culture? | In the 1800s football and other cecreation clubs were founded in Britian, frequently by churches to provide factory workers with leisure. |
| Despite their anonymous folk origins,what characteristics of organized spectator sports today characterize them as popular culture? | Permits both kicking and carrying of ball. |
| How does clothing style (in this case shoes) indicate the influence of the enviroment on folk culture? | Residents in artic climates may wear fur boots, which protect against the cold. |
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