AP HUG: Folk and Popular Culture Chapter 4 Key Terms

The part of the physical landscape that represents material culture, including buildings, roads, bridges, and etc.

The concept that people of different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decision about its nature, potentiality and use.

A nuclear area within which an advanced and distinctive set of culture traits, ideas, and technologies develops and from which there is diffusion of those characteristics and the cultural landscape features they imply. *

Smallest item of culture -building the block of culture.

Learned behavior ranging from language spoken to tools to games. They can be objects, techniques beliefs, or attitudes

Individual culture traits that are functionally interrelated

Culture traits and complexes have a real extent. Used to show the spatial extent of similar cultural areas.

Cultural regions showing similar complexes and landscapes are grouped to form a larger area

Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.

food that is traditionally made by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture

the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc. of people

folk songs originate anonymously and diffused through migration. Folk songs tell stories or convey info about life cycle events

houses that reflect cultural heritage, current fashion, functional needs, and the impact of the environment. The type of building materials used to construct folk houses is influenced partly by the resources available

Item used to represent a culture and proof of human activity The material manifestation of culture, including tools, housing, systems of land use, clothing, and etc.

Physical manifestation of human activities: tools art, structure, the most durable aspects of culture. The tangible, physical items produced and used by members of a specific culture group and reflective of their traditions, lifestyles and technologies.

Beliefs and practices shared by a group -values and morals

Behavior, values and beliefs you are supposed to have in a society The central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, and etc.

Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.

The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.

A repetitive act performed by a particular individual.

A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.

a geographic approach that emphasizes human-environment relationships

The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group

The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group's distinct tradition

The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time

The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in an additive process

The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places

The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population

The spread of an underlying principle even though a specific characteristic is rejected

The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another

One's belief in belonging to a group or certain cultural aspect

A religion that is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding another religion

a religion entirely or mostly surrounded by the another religion

distinguished by a set of cultural traits like language, beliefs, customs, norms of behavior, social institutions, the way of life, artifacts etc. An American, especially a United States inhabitant, whose language and ancestry are English.

A group's system of economic production depends on the relationship between environment and technology.

In non-industrial societies, it will usually be based on food production.

the look of housing, affected by the available materials, the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time

traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places

the step of the system analysis to further define the nature and scope of the project and identity the strengths and weaknesses of the company operating procedures and the current computer system

Folk Spatial Focus

Folk Creative Focus

Folk Social Focus

Folk Rate of Evolution

Folk Diffusion Pattern

Folk Medium of Diffusion

Folk Distribution of consumers and producers

Folk External Influence

Popular Spatial Focus

Popular Creative Focus

Popular Social Focus

Popular Rate of Evolution

Popular Diffusion Pattern

Popular Medium of Diffusion

Popular Distribution of consumers and producers

Popular External Influence

Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different societies

Pop culture is typical of large and ________ groups

Folk culture is typical of small and ___________ groups

this culture experiences frequent changes through time and space

Popular customs frequently originate in

As components of group identity and cultural learning, folk customs usually originate from

the sum of the effects of the local environment on a food item Ex: wine, coffee

A taboo against pork is a characteristic of

A taboo against beef (cows) is a characteristic of

Diffusion of internet service is following the earlier pattern of television except that the diffusion is much

The trend of globalization has threatened

The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish in the US is an example of one element of

The spatial distribution of soccer during the 20th century is an example of