Folk and Popular Culture
A repetitive act that a particular individual performs
What is a habit?
This genre of music was founded in 1973 in the Bronx, New York
What is hip-hop?
A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different
What is a lingua franca?
Members of the Church of Jesus Chris of Latter-Day Saints
What are Mormons?
This sport was traditionally played by the Iroquois Native Americans and was picked up by European colonists in Canada who diffused it to a handful of U.S. communities, especially in Maryland, upstate New York, and Long Island
What is lacrosse?
Practices traditionally engaged in by small, homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas
What is folk culture?
This form of music is written by specific individuals for the purpose of being sold to or performed in front of a large number of people
What is popular music?
The mix of Spanish and English through the process of English diffusing into the Spanish language in the United States
What is Spanglish?
The belief that God does not exist
What is atheism?
Fragmentary religious groupings to which individuals are loosely affiliated but that lack any permanent structure
What are cults?
Practices engaged in within large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
What is popular culture?
This genre of music derives from Rhythm and Blues, jazz, and gospel and is said to have originated in Cleveland, Ohio
What is Rock N' Roll?
A language used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects, such as road signs, money, and stamps
What is an official language?
A religion that attempts to be global - to appeal to all people, wherever they may live in the world, not just to those of one culture or location
What is a universalizing religion?
Groups that exercise control over their members by making them subsume their individual identities to that of the group, compelling them to adhere to strict ethical codes or rules
What are total institutions?
The body of material traits, customary beliefs, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people
What is culture?
This form of music tells a story or conveys information about life-cycle events, such as birth, death, and marriage, or environmental features, such as agriculture and climate
What are folk songs?
A collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history
What is a language family?
A religion that appeals primarily to one group of people living in one place
What is an ethnic religion?
Religious movements that break away from orthodoxy (generally accepted theory, doctrine, or practice)
What are sects?
A repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group
What is a custom?
This genre of music combines elements of traditional West African music, jazz, and American hip-hop and is said to have originated in Nigeria during the 1960's and 1970's
What is Afrobeats?
A language used in education, work, mass media, and government
What is an institutional language?
The belief that the existence of God can't be proven empirically
What is agnosticism?
China's alternative to Facebook
What is QZone?