Know and be able to
Chapter 4: CULTURE
KNOW
4.1
Culture
Cultural trait
Tradition
Artifact
Mentifact
Sociofact
Cultural complex
Cultural hearth
Cultural geography
Folk culture
Popular culture
Habit
Custom
Folk vs. Pop (origin, diffusion, distribution)
Folk music
Pop music
Soccer as a folk sport
Soccer as a pop sport
Surviving folk sports
4.2
Folk clothing
Opposition to folk clothing
Pop clothing
Terroir
Folk food customs
Differences in regional food
Taboo
Pop food culture
Factors of wine production
Factors of folk housing
Sacred spaces
US folk housing
New England style
Middle Atlantic style
Lower Chesapeake/ Tidewater style
Bungalow
Pile
Single Pile
Double Pile
Irregular Massed
Ranch
US popular housing
Modern style
Neo-Eclectic style
McMansion
Cultural landscape/ built environment
Core-Domain-Sphere Model
4.3
Core/periphery pattern
Innovation diffusion
Cultural globalization
Glocalization
Electronic diffusion of pop culture
TV in the 20th century
Diffusion of the internet
Growing periphery access
Media threat to folk culture
Cultural imperialism
Core dominant news media
Cultural linkage
Government media control
Social media effect on culture
Arab Spring
4.4
Folk sustainability challenges
Amish folk culture
Marriage folk practice in India
Dowry
Pop culture sustainability challenges
Landscape pollution
Resource depletion
Recycling
Culture regions
Cultural identity
Transculturation
Cultural adaptation
Cultural convergence
Cultural divergence
Multilinear evolution
Sequent Occupance
Assimilation
Acculturation
Cultural perception
Gender Inequality Index
Gendered space
Cultural revival/ localization
BE ABLE TO
 define culture, cultural geography, and culture regions.
 compare and contrast aspects of folk and popular culture:
 origins
 methods of diffusion
 current distributions
 provide specific examples of folk culture.
 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.