Unit 4 Review

What is a habit?

• A repetitive act performed by an individual
• prohibited social action 
• frequent repetition of an act by a group of people
• concerning with principles of right and wrong 

What is a custom

• a repetitive act performed by an individual
• frequent repetition performed by a group of people
• restricted social action
• concerns with principles of right and wrong 

What is popular culture typical of

• small homogeneous groups 
• large heterogeneous groups
• groups living in isolation
• groups that have little interaction with others

In contrast of folk culture, popular culture is more likely to vary 

• from place to place at a given time
• from time to time at a given place
• both from place to place and from time to time
• neither from place to place nor from time to time 

What is an example of popular culture

• a sari
• grass skirts
• sarongs
• blue jeans

The geographic study of languages provides a good example of 

• role and spread of religion across much of the world
• political conflicts that arise due to ethnic tensions
• diffusion of folk culture in different areas of the world
• interplay between globalization and local diversity 

British and American English differ in all but which of the following 

• alphabet
• spelling
• pronunciation
• vocabulary 

a group of languages that share a common ancestor before recorded history is 

• dialect
• language branch
• language family
• language group

A creolized language is 

• extinct
• an isolated language family
• a mix of indigenous and colonial language
• a possible prehistoric superfamily 

The most widely spoken Indo-European language is 

• English
• Hindi
• Spanish
• Bengali