Folk vs Pop
Amish people use ride a horse and buggy, instead of driving cars. This is an example of Folk or Pop culture?
Folk Culture
What is Culture?
Culture is the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition.
What kind of diffusion is it when the diffusion innovation or concept spreads from a place or person of power or high susceptibility to another in a leveled pattern
Hierarchical diffusion
What are the 4 most practiced religions?
Christianity (2.4 billion)
Islam (1.9 billion)
Hinduism (1.2 billion)
Buddhism (507 million)
What is an extinct language?
A language that no longer has any speakers
Listening to artists like Harry Styles or Taylor Swift, is this Pop or Folk Culture?
Pop Culture
What is a Cultural Trait?
a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person.
What is Syncretism?
Syncretism is the combining of elements of two groups into a new cultural feature. The two cultural groups come together to form a new culture/create something entirely new.
Name a religious trait
Like wearing a hijab or something
What is the lingua franca currently? And explain what it means to be the Lingua Franca.
A lingua franca is a language of international communication.
And its currently english
What is this type of culture: Culture traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogenous groups, often living in isolated or rural areas/communities
Folk Culture
What is Diffusion?
The process by which a characteristic spreads across space from one place to another over time.
What kind of diffusion is it when it Occurs when the innovative idea diffuses from its hearth outward, but the original idea is changed by the new adopters
Stimulus diffusion
What is Monotheism?
A Religion that believes in one god
Dr. Atkinson's Theorizes that The hearth of Language is?
It suggests that the origin of language is in Africa
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The origin of a culture is called the _______
Hearth
What is the process by which a group's cultural features are altered to resemble those of another group. The cultural features of one group may come to dominate the culture of the assimilated group.
Assimilation
Example: Different Menu items from McDonalds around the world. What kind of Diffusion is this?
Stimulus diffusion
Name UNO religious branch of Christianity
Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox. ETC
Explain one of the following:
Sedentary Farmer Theory?
Nomadic Warrior Theory?
Sedentary Farmer Theory: Proto-Indo-European speakers’ language diffused by agricultural practices rather than military conquest.
Nomadic Warrior Theory: Proto-Indo European speakers domesticated horses and migrated with their animals throughout Europe and South Asia. Languages spread through conquest and military dominance/superiority
I ran out of Pop Vs Folk culture questions so what is Mr Francis's middle name
Worth
What is the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group
Acculturation
Example: Hinduism spreading throughout the Indian subcontinent. What kind of Diffusion is this?
Contagious Diffusion
What is a Universalizing religion?
Religions that appeal to everyone, regardless of culture or location. They actively seek converts.
How did English diffuse?
Germanic tribes (Angles, Jutes, Saxons) from Germany and Denmark invaded the British Isles and brought their language with them.