Unit 3: Culture AP Review
Folk and Popular Culture
1. Define –
a. cultural hearth
b. folk culture
c. popular culture
d. cultural landscape
e. uniform landscape
f. assimilation
g. acculturation
2. from the book: Environment affect on housing
3. Know a few good examples of folk culture –
4. Review Amish and Hutterites culture from textbook
5. Affect of the diffusion of television on folk culture
6. diffusion popular culture impact on environment
Language
7. Define –
a. standard language
b. British Received Pronunciation
c. isogloss
d. isolated language
e. lingua franca
f. pidgin
g. creole
8. Why are American English and British English different?
9. What is meant by language convergence and language divergence?
10. How do dialects develop?
11. from the ppt: Print and study the language tree
a. tree – branch – group - language
b. especially English’s language tree
c. know the major languages
d. know a few exceptions – like Basque
12. Why preserve local languages? make sure to connect to the idea of folk culture
13. Approximately how many languages are there? Approximately how many languages
have been lost? Approximately how many languages are endangered?
14. What threatens languages?
15. How and Why are endangered languages being preserved? Know a few examples.
16. from the book: Read about Belgium –
Religion
17. Universalizing religion
a. characteristics
b. examples
18. Ethnic religion
a. characteristics
b. examples
19. Christianity
a. major branches and denominations
b. hearth
c. diffusion
20. Islam
a. major branches and denominations
b. hearth
c. diffusion
21. Review world map of religions and map of US Christian denominations from ppt
22. in the book: p. 182 and 215 Read about the Dalai Lama and Tibet Buddhism
23. in the book: Review Religious wars in the Middle East and the Conflict over the Holy
Land
Ethnicity
24. Define:
a. Ethnicity
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Hispanic
d. Latino
e. Nation
f. State
g. Nation-state
25. Where are the various ethnicities clustered in the US? Why?
26. What are the migration patterns of African Americans?
27. What is the difference between ethnicity and race?
28. What are some examples of homogenous countries (nation-states)?
29. What are some examples of multi-ethnic countries? What problems do multi-ethnic
countries have?
30. Review pages 237 – 251 on ethnic clashes.
Use the Immigration Waves Chart, ethnic map of US and religions in US map to make
connections.