Pop and Folk Culture
This type of culture is traditionally practiced by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas.
What is folk culture?
The built forms (buildings, roads, signs) that reflect the beliefs and values of a culture are known as what?
What is the cultural landscape?
The spread of a trend from the highest nodes of authority or power to other lower-level persons or places.
The name for a single, specific aspect of a culture
Wooden shoes, or clogs, which are commonly associated with the traditional clothing of the Netherlands, are an example of this.
What is an artifact?
This type of diffusion is the primary way folk culture spreads.
What is relocation diffusion?
What is the term for the process by which a less dominant culture adopts some traits of a more dominant culture, but still retains its own distinctive culture?
What is acculturation?
The spread of an underlying principle (e.g., McDonald's in India serving veggie burgers instead of beef) even though a specific characteristic is rejected.
What is stimulus diffusion?
This is a language of international communication, often used in trade, business, and science
What is a lingua franca?
These represent the ways in which a society behaves and organizes institutions, acting as the link between individuals and their core beliefs.
What are sociofacts?
This term refers to a restriction on behavior imposed by social custom, such as a food restriction.
What is a taboo?
The term for an origin point of a cultural innovation
What is a cultural hearth?
What is English?
The prohibition of eating pork in Judaism and Islam
What is a taboo?
The Western norm of shaking hands upon meeting someone is a classic example of this type of cultural trait.
What is a sociofact?
While it is now globalized and very popular, this sport began as a folk custom with specialized, localized rules in 11th century England
What is soccer?
This concept refers to the reduction in the time it takes for something to reach another place, often caused by technology.
What is time-space compression?
This religion, which does not have a single founder or holy book, has its hearth in the Indus River Valley.
What is Hinduism?
Cultural traits, such as regional music or food in the US-Mexico borderland, can act as these types of forces by reinforcing local identity, but also as these types of forces by separating them from the national majority.
What are centripetal and centrifugal forces?
This concept occurs when a new, hybrid trait is created by combining two different cultural traits into a unique, new form (e.g., new food or musical style).
What is syncretism?
The transformation of local landscapes into standardized, unrecognizable spaces—such as the global proliferation of strip malls, fast-food franchises, and identical suburban housing—is referred to by this 2-word term.
What is placelessness?
This term describes the layers of imprints left by successive cultures on the landscape, such as in New Orleans where French, Spanish, and American influences are visible.
What is sequent occupance?
Islam's spread to parts of East Africa and Southeast Asia via trade networks is an example of what two types of cultural diffusion?
What is relocation and contagious diffusion?
These are the main ancient cultural hearths
What are Mesopotamia, the Nile Valley, Indus Valley, Mesoamerica
The caste system in India acts as a "sociofact" for organizing society, while the underlying religious concept that justifies it is this.
What is a mentifact?