Know and be able to
Ch. 4 CULTURE
KNOW
Key 1:
popular culture
habit
Key 2:
material culture
custom
taboo
uniform landscape
folk culture
Acculturation
Key 4:
culture hearth
assimilation
cultural ecology
mentifact
Key 3:
cultural landscape
sociofact
globalization
local diversity
artifact
hearth
macroculture
cultural/environmental perception
BE ABLE TO
 define culture, cultural geography, and culture regions.
 identify and name macrocultural regions and identify the major language and religion of
each.
 compare and contrast aspects of folk and popular culture:
 origins
 methods of diffusion
 culture regions
 current distributions
 provide specific examples of folk culture and folk regions.
 provide specific examples of specific popular cultural traits and discuss their diffusion.
 discuss ways in which cultural traits are affected by and affect:
 the natural environment.
 the “built environment” (cultural landscape).
 the economics of a region.
 discuss ways in which communications technologies differ in terms of
 their diffusion and distribution.
 the ways in which different governments respond to them.
ASSIGNED READINGS
1. Rubenstein, Chapter 4: Folk and Popular Culture
2. Amish: A People of Preservation
CASE STUDIES
1. Amish
2. Maori Haka
INTRODUCTION TO CH. 4 CULTURE p. 114-115
1. In Chapter 1, culture was shown to combine three things:___________________,
______________, ______________________.
2. Material artifacts of culture: __________ objects that a group has and leaves behind for the
future.
3. Two locations have ___________ cultural beliefs, objects, and institutions because people
bring along their culture when they ______________.
4. _____________ culture derives from the survival activities of everyone’s daily life______________, _______________, _________________.
5. ____________________- the arts and recreation.
6. ________________: a repetitive act that an individual performs, such as wearing jeans to
class every day.
7. ________________: a repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes
characteristic of the group, such as American university students wear jeans to class every day.
8. A ___________ does not mean that the act has been adopted by most of the society’s
population.
9. Think of you own examples of habits that most of society hasn’t adopted:
10. ___________________: traditionally practiced by small, homogeneous (same) groups living
in isolated rural areas and may include a custom (such as wearing a sarong in Malaysia or a sari
in India).
11. __________________: found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits
despite differences in other personal characteristics.
12. Due to ___________________, popular culture is becoming more dominant, threatening
the survival of unique folk cultures.
13. The disappearance of local folk culture reduces _________________ in the world.