CULTURE - POP/Folk

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.