Chapter 4 Key Issues 1-4

Folk Culture is

• urban based
• influenced by technology and the media
• practiced by small, homogeneous group
• encourages a uniform landscape

Popular Culture

• uses media for diffusion
• spreads by relocation diffusion
• is small and homogeneous
• focuses on diversity

Assimilation takes place when

• a culture moves with people during relocation diffusion
• a culture is totally absorbed by a dominant culture
• a culture shares traits with a larger culture
• two cultures have a "give and take" relationship

Environmental determinism generalizes a region's culture is shaped by

• access to waterways for transport
• the population's choice of staple food
• the dominance of the region
• the physical geography of the region

Which is not part of the cultural landscape of a location?

• office building
• sewer system
• river system
• water well

Increasing worldwide use of the Internet, popularity of Hollywood movies and other English language media is called

• cultural globalization
• relocation diffusion
• contagious diffusion
• vernacular region 

What country has tried to preserver their cultural identity by keeping global television and internet out?

• Australia
• Sudan
• North Korea
• Canada

Folk culture is spread by

• relocation diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• contagious difffusion

• stimulus diffusion

The frequent repetition of a task by an individual is called 

• a habit
• a taboo
• a custom
• character trait

In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of large and

• homogeneous groups
• heterogeneous groups
• isolated, rural area groups
• specialized groups