Culture Definitions
Folk Culture Definition
Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
Ideogram Defintion
A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it
Folk Culture Examples
The Amish are an example of folk culture in the U.S today. They don't use modern technologies and rely on their own traditions and customs.
Ideogram Example
The numerals and Chinese characters are Ideograms.
Popular Culture Definition
Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Ebonics Definition
Dialects spoken by some African Americans.
Popular culture examples
One example of pop culture is TikTok. It began in a known hearth and diffused rapidly throughout the world. TikTok has created a homogenous landscape and today has millions of users.
Ebonics Example
She BIN had dat han'-made dress" (SE=She's had that hand-made dress for a long time, and still does.)
Assimilation Definition
Process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
Language Group
A collection of languages within a branch that shares a common origin in the relatively recent past and displays relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary.
Assimilation Examples
An immigrant comes to America and adopts the new clothing trends of crop tops and ripped jeans.
Language group example
Indo Iranian and baltic are both language groups within the language family Indo-European.
Terroir Definition
A contribution of locations distinctive physical features to the way food tastes.
Creole Definition
A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Terroir Examples
A McDonalds in China uses local produce such as rice to produce their meals.
Creole Examples
Hawaiian is a creole since it is a combination of many languages.
Neolocalism Definition
A conscious effort by businesses to foster a sense of place based on attributes of their community.
Isogloss Definition
A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.
Neolocalism example
A Chinese family moved to a Chinatown neighborhood since it is a familiar culture and they can sustain similar cultural customs.
Isogloss Example
In northern America they say pop, and in the south they say coke.