Pop Culture
Folk Culture
Traditional American House types
Diffusion of Pop culture
Vocabulary
100
This is large, incorporates heterogeneous populations, typically urban, and experiences quickly changing cultural triats.
What is pop culture?
100
This is small, incorporates heterogeneous populations, is typically rural, and is cohesive in cultural traits.
What is folk culture?
100
These were created by the diverse building styles diffused in several parallel streams
What is folk-housing regions
100
Popular culture is based mainly in...
What is urban areas?
100
This is a constructed identity and is a perfect example of how identities are built.
What is race?
200
Popular culture is practiced by a ______ group of people.
What is heterogeneous (people across identities and across the world)?
200
This is the process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit.
What is cultural appropriation.
200
These homes have one story and a characteristic porch. They also have a gaurd against flood damage
What is southern tidewater housings?
200
This might play a larger role because popular society is highly stratified
What is hierarchical diffusion?
200
This is the area where an idea or cultural trait originates
What is a hearth?
300
These communities are becoming more and more common.
What is Gated Communities?
300
Folk culture is sustained through...
What is customs?
300
This is known as a "saltbox" house
What is a New England house
300
These are the main paths of diffusion of popular culture
What are transportation, marketing, and communication networks?
300
This is a neighborhood, typically situated in a larger metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs.
What is an ethnic neighborhood?
400
Examples of pop culture are...
What are music, dance, clothing, food, religious practices and aesthetic values?
400
After shared experiences of unemployment, police harassment, and poor housing conditions, these people defined themselves as a folk culture during the 1970's.
What is the West Indies.
400
This housing type originated as a one-room log cabin with a stone chimney and fireplace at one end.
What is a Mid- Atlantic house?
400
innovations diffuse between countries rapidly, this is known as..
What is international diffusion?
400
This is seeking out the regional culture and reinvigorating it in response to the uncertainty of the modern world.
What is neolocalism?
500
Athletes, political figures, celebrities, inventors, criminals, lottery winners, and even animals are examples of this.
What are cultural icons?
500
A folk culture can create a boundary around itself and try to keep other cultures out in order to avoid...
What is contamination and extinction?
500
The spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spread.
What is diffusion routes?
500
Some contributions to the spread of popular culture are...
What is industrialization, urbanization, rise of formal education, resultant increase in leisure time?
500
This is the notion that what happens at the global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vice versa.
What is global-local continuum?
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