CULTURE - POP/Folk

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Pop Culture - effect on world's places

Leads to the homogenization of different places, because it modifies the environment in order to create a space for a demanded item

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Folk Culture - effect on world's places

Creates a more heterogeneous world by making all places different and dependent on the local environment

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Pop Culture - time

Likely to change all of the time

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Folk Culture - time

Likely to stay the same for generations

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Pop Culture - origin

you can usually point to a particular person who started the trend

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Folk Culture - origin

you can usually point to a location or a group as a source (hearth), but not to a particular person as a source

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Cultural Imperialism

the creation and maintenance of unequal relationships between civilizations, favoring the more powerful civilization. Especially in terms of media, language, religion, etc

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Globalization

The increasing interaction of people through the growth of the international flow of money, ideas and culture

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Tools of Globalization

Electronic transfers of money, Electronic communications, improvements in high speed travel, English as a 2nd language, the internet, satellites, international universities, multinational corporations, etc.

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Habit

A recurrent, often unconscious, pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition.

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Taboo

proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable

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Custom

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

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Homogeneity

Same or uniform

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Heterogeneity

different or diverse

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Folk Culture

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

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Pop Culture

culture found in large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics

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Distance Decay

describes the effect of distance on cultural, economic, or spatial interactions.

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Tools of Globalization effect on Distance Decay

reduces the effect of distance on cultural, economic, or spatial interactions

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Possibilism

Popular Cultures tend to be more________________as they attempt to spread fashionable or popular trends in areas where they do not make geographic sense

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Environmentally Determined

Folk Cultures tend to not spread (or only 1 small element spreads) because the necessary components of the culture is _____________________________

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Assimilation

The process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture; the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another.

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Acculturation

The adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend

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cultural appropriation

the process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit

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Pop Culture Diffusion

CONTAGIOUS - fast, widespread quick diffusion, large scale, primarily through HIERARCHICAL diffusion by means of modern technology & communications

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Folk Culture Diffusion

Smaller scale and slower transmissions from one location to another primarily through RELOCATION diffusion (migration)

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Cultural diversity is promoted by

the relative isolation of a group from others

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Hierarchical Diffusion

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

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Contagious Diffusion

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

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relocation diffusion

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

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