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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
Folk Culture - effect on world's places
Creates a more heterogeneous world by making all places different and dependent on the local environment
Pop Culture - time
Likely to change all of the time
Folk Culture - time
Likely to stay the same for generations
Pop Culture - origin
you can usually point to a particular person who started the trend
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
Cultural Imperialism
the creation and maintenance of unequal relationships between civilizations, favoring the more powerful civilization. Especially in terms of media, language, religion, etc
Globalization
The increasing interaction of people through the growth of the international flow of money, ideas and culture
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.
Habit
A recurrent, often unconscious, pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition.
Taboo
proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable
Custom
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people
Homogeneity
Same or uniform
Heterogeneity
different or diverse
Folk Culture
culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups
Pop Culture
culture found in large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
Distance Decay
describes the effect of distance on cultural, economic, or spatial interactions.
Tools of Globalization effect on Distance Decay
reduces the effect of distance on cultural, economic, or spatial interactions
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
Environmentally Determined
Folk Cultures tend to not spread (or only 1 small element spreads) because the necessary components of the culture is _____________________________
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.
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
cultural appropriation
the process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit
Pop Culture Diffusion
CONTAGIOUS - fast, widespread quick diffusion, large scale, primarily through HIERARCHICAL diffusion by means of modern technology & communications
Folk Culture Diffusion
Smaller scale and slower transmissions from one location to another primarily through RELOCATION diffusion (migration)
Cultural diversity is promoted by
the relative isolation of a group from others
Hierarchical Diffusion
the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority or power to other persons or places
Contagious Diffusion
The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.
relocation diffusion
The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another.