found in small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas
What is folk culture?
100
How does folk culture diffuse?
What is relocation diffusion?
100
What promotes cultural diversity?
What is isolation?
100
What were the popular styles between 1945 and 1960?
What is modern house styles?
100
What does fast food restaurants produce?
What is a more uniform landscape?
200
The diffusion of American brands, values, and attitudes throughout the world
What is Americanization?
200
For what purpose is popular music written?
What is the purpose of being sold to a large number of people?
200
According to Vidal de la Blache, what ties people to a certain environment and is less subject to modification than clothing and weapons?
What is food supply and dietary regime?
200
Alcohol consumption relates partially to religious backgrounds and partially to what?
What is income and advertising?
200
Name one factor that limits the advancement of women.
What is low levels of education and high rates of victimization from violence, often inflicted by husbands?
300
Process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
300
What do we know about the origins of folk culture?
What is folk customs have anonymous hearths, originating from anonymous sources, at unknown dates, and through unidentified originators?
300
What are the 3 major hearths or nodes of folk house forms in the United States?
What is New England, Middle Atlantic, and Lower Chesapeake?
300
The scarcity of high quality jeans was an important motive for what in the 1990s?
What is the dismantling of Communist governments in Eastern Europe?
300
What are 2 negative impacts of the diffusion of popular culture?
What is the diffusion of popular culture threatens the survival of traditional folk cultures and popular culture generates adverse environmental impacts?
400
define "cultural core"
What is the zone of greatest concentration or homogeneity of the cultural traits that characterize a region?
400
Where was the earliest documented soccer contest, and when?
What is England in the eleventh century?
400
What is folk housing partly influenced by?
What is resources available in the environment?
400
Name 2 examples of technology that assault government control of the flow of information.
What is satellite dishes, fax machines, portable video recorders, and cellular telephones?
400
Why do African and Asian government officials criticize the Western concept of freedom of the press?
What is American news organizations reflect American values and do not provide a balanced, accurate view of other countries?
500
define "cultural imperialism"
What is The imposition of a foreign viewpoint or civilization on a people?
500
Who gathered the group of followers known as the Amish,and when?
What is Swiss Mennonite Jakob Ammann in the 1600s?
500
How do the Laos people set up their sleeping arrangements and why is it significant?
What is they sleep with their heads opposite their neighbors' heads and their feet opposite their neighbors' feet because the head is considered high and noble and the feet are considered vulgar?
500
The U.S. public first saw television during the 1930s, but its diffusion was blocked for a number of years. State why this occurred.
What is TV broadcasting was curtailed or suspended entirely during World War 2?
500
Veteran _____ and _______ invariably pack a portable shortwave ______ when they visit other countries because the only ______ and unbiased news accounts come from ___ ______.
What is travelers, journalists, radio, reliable, BBC World?