Culture/Diffusion
Language
Religion
Folk Culture
Vocab
100
Provide 2 examples of reverse-hierarchal diffusion and define the term.
What is hip-hop and tattoos?
What is diffusion of culture from low to high classes?
100
All the following are in the Indo-European language family EXCEPT:
A: Portuguese
B: Bengali
C: German
D: Hindi
E: Turkish
What is E, Turkish?
100
What is fundamentalism?
What is when someone follows the doctrine word for word? (can often lead to extremism)
100
The type of folk housing built depends on ________.
(there are multiple possible answers)
What is the environmental conditions in the area/ number of people living in the house/ cultural traditions/practices.
100
Define the term "ethnic enclave".
What is a community where people of the same ethnicity cluster?
200
Name 3 examples of cultural hearths and the region(s) that they diffused to.
bonus question: What do all of these regions have in common?
What is:
Andean America; to South America
Meso America(Mexico); into East and West US
West Africa; to Africa
Nile River Valley; diffused South and East
Mesopotamia; throughout Southwest Asia and parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa
Indus River Valley; into Southwest and Central Asia
Ganges River; diffused South and Southeast of India
Yellow River; throughout China and East and Southeast Asia
bonus question answer: All of these regions have arable soil and access to water
200
Define literary tradition.
bonus question: What do you call a language that doesn't have a literary tradition?
What is when a language has a written form?
bonus question answer: Vigorous language
200
Define the term "taboo."
Provide examples of taboos in Judaism, Islam, Mormonism, and Hinduism.
What is a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.
Judaism: eating pork, shellfish, harshly slaughtering an animal, etc.
Islam: eating pork, alcohol, harshly slaughtering an animal, etc.
Mormonism: consuming alcohol
Hinduism: beef
200
Folk cultures are spread primarily by ______
A: Stimulus diffusion
B: Hierarchal diffusion
C: Contagious diffusion
D: Reverse-hierarchal diffusion
E: Relocation Diffusion
What is E?
200
Define language divergence and provide a reason why this may occur.
What is when speakers of the same language scatter and develop variations of the original language?
What are physical environmental factors such as mountains, rivers, etc.?
300
Which of the following is a true statement about popular culture?
A: Technology is reducing the scale of territory covered by popular culture.
B: The scale of territory covered by folk culture is often much larger than that of popular culture.
C: The heart of popular culture customs is often found in less-developed regions.
D: Folk culture is often the result of cultural isolation, while popular culture often results from cultural diffusion.
E: Popular culture customs remain the same for long periods of time.
What is D?
300
What regions are languages in the Indo-European language family most used?
bonus question: How many branches are in this language family?
What is Europe, South Asia, North America, and Latin America?
bonus question answer: It has 8 branches.
300
Which of the following originated in South Asia and subsequently spread throughout much of Southeast and East Asia?
A: Hinduism
B: Christianity
C: Buddhism
D: Sikhism
E: Confucianism
What is C, Buddhism?
300
What are the three major hearths of folk housing in the US?
bonus question: Who identified these hearths?
What is New England, Middle Atlantic, and Lower Chesapeake and Tidewater?
bonus question answer: Fred Kniffen
bonus info: they diffused Westward
300
Which type of diffusion occurs when a cultural trait spreads continuously outwards from its hearth through contact among people?
What is contagious diffusion?
(ex: blues, jazz)
400
The United States is home to dozens of cultures and religions from around the world. This is best described as:
A: transculturation
B: multi-culturism
C: cultural nationalism
D: cultural convergence
E: cultural relativism
What is B, multi-culturism?
400
What are the top 5 native languages?
bonus question: Define a native language.
What are Mandarin, Spanish, English, Hindu/Urdu, and Arabic?
bonus question answer: the first language that someone learns to speak
400
Name 2 examples of a universalizing religion.
Name 2 examples of an ethnic religion.
What is Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc.?
What is Hindu, Judaism, etc.
400
What type of folk house is shown below and what region is it from?
What is dogtrot and the Southeastern United States?
400
An essential difference between the standard language of a people and an official language is that the standard language is
A: the chosen, generally accepted variant of a language, while the official language is the legally declared language of a country to be used in all government interactions
B: usually spoken by outsiders, while the official language is what is on all official documents
C: the form spoken by commoners, while the official language is the “king’s form” of the language, taught in the grammar books
D: used widely throughout society, while the official language is only used for government documents
E: unchanging, while the official language changes with changes in governments
What is A?
500
Mentifacts and sociofacts are both types of ________.
What is non-material culture?
500
Which theory theorizes that that the Kurgan people were one of the first people to domesticate horses and spread their language through searching for grassland?
What is the nomadic warrior theory?
500
Which of the following religions' hearth is in Iran? (multiple answers possible)
A: Baha'i
B: Cao Dai
C: Spiritism
D: Zoroastrianism
E: Juche
What are A and D?
500
What is the name of this type of house and the region that it belongs to?
What is a saltbox house that is from New England?
500
What is the difference between acculturation and assimilation?
Acculturation is adopting SOME characteristics of a culture while keeping some aspects of the original culture, but assimilation makes it so that it is difficult to distinguish the assimilated person from the new group.