APHG Unit 3 Culture pt. 1

APHG Unit 3 Culture pt. 1

What is culture?

• Generally, culture is the shared experience, traits, and activities of a group of people with a common heritage.

• We traditionally use language, religion, and ethnicity to indicate culture, but there are many traits that can make up "culture."

Cultural Synthesis and Syncretism

• Some things are original to particular cultures, others however are part of blending between cultures as a result of continuous contact.

• Synthesis is when cultures blend, syncretism is when cultures combine.

Pop Culture and Folk Culture

• Popular Culture occurs in large, heterogeneous groups across a large area.

• Folk culture occurs in small, homogenous groups in a small area.

Multiple Choice

Snapchat

• Popular Culture

• Folk Culture

Multiple Choice

Christianity

• Popular Culture

• Folk Culture

Multiple Choice

Bluegrass music

• Popular Culture

• Folk Culture

Cultural landscape

• The signs and symbols that signify, or reflect the culture of an area.

• Those individual signs and symbols are called "traits."

Where does culture develop?

• We call places where cultural traits develop "hearths."

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How does culture spread?

• Diffusion

• Assimilation: joining and participating in the dominant culture.

• Acculturation: blending personal culture with the dominant culture.

Multiple Choice

In terms of diffusion, what is a hearth?

• The point of origin
• The final destination
• The mid-way point
• All points along the diffusion route

Multiple Choice

Cultural landscape is closest in meaning to which of the following?

• Built environment

• Physical environment

• Environmental determinism

• Cultural ecology

Multiple Choice

Cultural landscape can be defined as

• the types of art, music, dance, and theater practiced in a particular region

• the ways that people in differing cultures perceive the environment

• a particular area within a geographic region dedicated to cultural activities

• the forms superimposed on the physical environment by the activities of humans