Pop vs. Folk Culture
What is culture?
Learned behavior patterns within a group
A regional variation of a language is known as a ____
Language dialect
Name the characteristics of ethnic religions. Hint: there are 2
One group in one place
Unknown origin
What is the term for a group of people who identify with their cultural and biological history?
Ethnicity
A group of many languages, which all came from the same original language but have evolved differently over time
Language Families
Culture is spread by
(A) Transnational corporations
(B) Migrants
(C) War and occupation
(D) Television and other media
(E) All the above
E) All of the above
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
45% of the world speaks languages from
________ family
Indo-European
What are the oldest religions?
Judaism and Hinduism
Where did Apartheid take place?
South Africa
A government with multiple ethnic groups
Multinational State, ex. Canada
True or False: Popular culture is practiced in small, homogenous groups
False
What are the romantic languages?
French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The largest number of Muslims live in what regions of the world?
The Middle East and Southeast Asia
What is the difference between a nation and a state?
State: An independent unit that
occupies a specific territory and has
full control of its internal and
external affairs
Nation: A group of people with a
common culture living in a territory
and having a strong sense of unity
Legal separation of people based on race
Apartheid
What is hierarchical diffusion?
Describes how a trend spreads rapidly and extensively
What is an example of a revived language?
Hebrew. It was only used for religious purposes until the formation of Israel in 1948.
What are the four ways Islam spread across the Eastern Hemisphere?
War, trade, missionaries, and migration
During the 1920's and 1930's where did large numbers of African Americans migrate to?
Northern Industrial Cities
Common ancestral language that
existed long before recorded
history
Trunk
What is a major difference between Folk music and Popular music?
Folk- Songs tell a story or give information about
life-cycle, events such as birth, death, and
marriage, or the environment (such as
agriculture and climate).
Popular- Written by specific individuals for the purpose of being sold to
or performed in front of a large number of people.
Differences between American and British English include all the following except
(A) Different pronunciation of words
(B) Different spelling of words
(C) Different vocabulary for some objects
(D) Different language of origin
(E) All the above
E) All of the above
Siddhartha Gautama rejects some
basic ideas found in Hinduism in creation of _____
Buddhism
T/F- Ethnic clustering in the U.S. can only be explained by migration patterns
False, distance decay can also explain ethnic clustering in the U.S.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Set of languages with a common ancestry and similar word/structure
Language Group