Transcript Folk and Pop Culture

Culture
 Shared set of meanings that are lived through material
and symbolic practices of everyday life.
 A particular way of life, such as a set of skilled activities,
values, & meanings surrounding a particular type of
practice
 Habit-Repetitive act of an INDIVIDUAL
 Bri goes to Starbucks every morning before school.
 Custom- Repetitive act of a GROUP
 Muslims pray five times a day.
 Cultural Geography
 Study of people, material, and symbolic practices
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Material- artifacts
Nonmaterial- thoughts, laws
 Cultural Landscape
 PHYSICAL imprint a culture makes on the environment
 Historical Geography/Genre de vie
 Cultural Ecology
 Results of human interaction with the environment
 Sequent Occupancy
Human-Environment Interaction
(One of the five themes of Human Geography!)
 Environmental
Determinism
 Human behavior
CONTROLLED by
environment
 Cultural Determinism
 Environment places
NO restrictions on
human behavior.
 Possibilism
 Counterargument!
 Environment places
limits, but people
propel development
 Political Ecology
 Exploration of why
human culture
interacts with the
environment the way it
does.
 Culture Trait
 Fireworks on the Fourth of July
 Culture Complex
 All culture traits
 No two cultures are the same!
 Culture System
 Many complexes with shared traits
 Culture Region
 Regions that include places/people with similarities in
their culture systems
 The South
 Culture Realm
 Fusing culture regions
Latin America
Cultural Diffusion
 Expansion
 Spreads outward but
remains strong in
hearth
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Stimulus: Iced to Sweet
tea
Hierarchical: Hip-hop
Contagious: Disease
 Relocation
 Actual movement
from hearth to new
place
 Migrant Diffusion
 Innovation spreads
but only last a brief
time
 Band groupies
Hearths
 An area where innovations in culture began. They are
sources of human civilization. Often developed in
places with capacity for innovation (water and arable
land).
 Ancient Hearths
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Mesoamerica
Nile River Valley
Indus River Valley
Huang River Valley
Torsten Hagerstrand
 Innovations diffuse from hearths in stages
 Stage 1- Acceptance in place of origin
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Early adopters
 Stage 2- Spread rapidly outward
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Majority adopters
 Stage 3- Diffusion slows down and dispersal/saturation
reaches maximum level.
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The late adopters phase
 Cultural Convergence
 Two cultures adopt
traits and become
more alike
 Cultural Divergence
 Two culture become
more different
 Acculturation
 Weaker culture adopts
traits from the
stronger one.
 Assimilation
 Original traits of the
weaker culture are
completely replaced
 Transculturation
 Two cultures of equal
power meet and
exchange.
Folk Culture
 Limited to smaller region/group of people
 Homogeneous
 Rural community
 Anonymous hearths
 Resistance to change
 Diffuses slowly/relocation diffusion
Popular Culture
 Large heterogeneous societies
 Diffuses rapidly
 Expansion Diffusion
 Hierarchical
 Can threaten local distinctiveness
 Cultural homogeneity
 Globalization
 Western Media Imperialism
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US, Britain, and Japan dominate media
 Environmental Problems
 MDCs
 Cultural Imperialism
 Invasion of a culture with intent to dominate
 Cultural Nationalism
 Resistance of a group against cultural imperialism and
convergence.
 Taboo
 Restriction
on behavior
imposed by
social
customs
Folk Housing
 Product of cultural traditions and natural conditions
 Distinctive materials from environment
 US Folk Housing
 Lower Chesapeake-Tidewater style
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One story
 Middle Atlantic-Principle House
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“I” house, Two stories, gables on side
 New England
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Saltbox, Two-Chimney, Cape cod, and front gable and wing.
Small Rural Community?
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Hierarchical Diffusion?
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Most Sports originated in which culture?
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Environmental Determinism affects
which culture the most?
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Taboos are often found in countries
dominated by which culture?
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This culture has turned to tourism
to help revitalize?
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This culture often uses the
environment for leisure activities?
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Breaking Amish, the reality TV show, is
an example of which type of culture?
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This culture’s music tells a story or
conveys information?
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Reinforces gender roles and
traditions of family?
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