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folk & pop culture
folk and pop culture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Habit | Repetitive act that a particular individual performs |
| custom | is a repetivie act of a group |
| Folk culture | is traditionally practiced by small, homogenous groups living in isolated rual areas |
| Popular culture | found in large hetrogenous socieites that share cirtian habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
| where are folk culture hearths | they arr often anonymous and my have multiple hearths |
| Give an example of folk relocation diffusion | The Amish: orignally from switzerland they migrated to parts of eurpoe and the USA and migrated to places with cheap land, isolated from other cultures they mantained their unique culture |
| Example: hierarchical diffusion of popular culture | sports: many sports started out as folk customs and were diffused through migration, but with a gain in popularity they became a global sport |
| Why is folk culture clustered | isolation and influence of physical environment |
| Example: Isolation promoting cultural diversity | Himalayan art: the 4 different ethnic groups are seperated and isolated in the mountians, and they produce very differnt art. the different subjects of their paintings reflect their folk culture |
| Example: Physical enviroment | footwear: the custom of wearing wodden shoes in the Netherlands b/c they are waterprooof, as they worked in the feilds they often got very wet, the shoes kept their feet dry |
| Define: Taboo | a restriction on behavior imposed by social customs |
| What is unique about folk housing? | the types of building materials is a reflection of what reasources are avabile. the forms of different houses relfect religious ideas |
| Example: loss of traditional values | clothing in africa and asia: there is a contrast between clothing of rual farmwrokers and urban business men (there are more populart influences in the large cities--business suits) |
| Example: change of traditional roles of women | from women of the home...to an increase in prostitution |
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