Culture
How is culture reproduced?
By mimicry or copying
What is folk culture?
Culture that is shared among a small group of people in person
What is the primary goal of pop culture?
To sell things
To make money
This is the study of place names
Toponymy
This term describes the process of the world becoming more connected, particularly from an economic perspective.
Globalization
What is a cultural hearth?
A place where a lot of culture has originated from
Give an example of folk culture.
Many answers possible
This term is defined as: the latest and most socially esteemed style of products and behaviors.
Fashion
These guide social behavior and language use in everyday speaking situations
Cultural Scripts
This term describes the increasing complexity of human societies over time
Cultural Evolution
What three categories can culture be put into?
Artifacts
Mentifacts
Sociofacts
How is folk culture shared and learned?
Learning from your elders
Why do some people resist pop culture?
They don't like corporations
They want countries to have more power over what goes on in/around their countries
Members of this share a similar cultural background and language knowledge.
Speech Community
In the modern context, this term means a place exactly like any other place.
Placelessness
What is a cultural landscape?
Why has folk culture been declining recently?
Because of globalization and the internet
What kind of place does pop culture usually originate from?
Highly populated and connected places
This is the name of the city that got its name from a native legend about two tribes who avoided war when a warrior from one tribe saved the daughter of the other tribe's chief.
White Bear Lake
This is the idea that it takes time for pop culture to diffuse to different places.
Cultural Lag
What is cultural ecology?
How people influence their landscape, and how the landscape also influences the people
What kinds of places does folk culture usually exist?
Rural places, places that are less connected to the rest of the world
What is one part of folk culture that is most often distorted and changed by pop culture?
Holidays and other traditions/celebrations
Name at least 4 states that can trace their name back to British colonists
Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, the Carolinas
This is the process in which a cultural attribute is changed into a mass-market product
Commodification