Free Response Question: Folk and Popular Culture
1. Define the following:
Folk culture
Popular culture
Globalization
2. Choose from one of the following forms of material culture and explain the
environmental factors that led to its incorporation into the folk culture where it
originated.
Rap, hip hop or Reggae
Blue jeans
soccer
fast food
3. Explain the factors that led to the diffusion of the cultural characteristic described
above and its evolution into popular culture.
4. Explain how globalization can both destroy and preserve the customs and
characteristics of folk culture.