Folk and Pop Culture

Which of the following is TRUE?

• Folk culture is more likely to vary from place to place at a given time, while popular culture is more likely to vary from time to time at a given place.

• Popular culture is more likely to vary from place to place at a given time, while folk culture is more likely to vary from time to time at a given place.

• Folk culture rarely varies from place to place at a given time and popular culture variations are limited primarily to large urban centers.

• Popular culture is a limiting effect on variations of folk culture.

• Folk culture is a limiting effect on the variations of popular culture.

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

• homogeneous groups.

• heterogeneous groups.

• groups living in isolated rural areas.

• groups that have little interaction with other groups.

• groups of specialists.

Which of the following is TRUE about Folk Culture?

• Folk culture would not exist without small scale and local migration.

• Folk culture does not diffuse through relocation diffusion.

• Several elements of folk culture may have multiple, unknown origins.

• Folk culture can only be transmitted orally across time and location.

• Several elements of folk culture tend to replace elements of popular culture.

In recent decades, popular customs have most frequently originated in

• more developed countries.

• less developed countries.

• formerly communist countries.

• countries with large rural populations.

• Latin America and Africa.

Groups living in close proximity to one another yet practicing uniquely different social customs suggests

• refusal to teach other customs in schools.

• refusal to share other customs in religious ceremonies.

• inability to set up telephone service.

• limited connections due to topographic, linguistic or ethnic barriers.

• military confrontation.

We can deduce from the examples of popular music, fashionable clothing, and electronic applications around us that the rapid diffusion of popular culture

• discourages people in different places to adopt different customs.

• depends on modern communication systems.

• is an example of relocation diffusion.

• conserves natural resources.

• always occurs at the expense of folk culture.

The _____________ is an important sources area for U.S. folk house types.

• Middle Atlantic

• Southern Atlantic

• Northeast

• Upper New York highland

• Southwest

The organization "Freedom on the Net"

• measures the level of internet and digital freedom across 65 countries.

• measures the purchasing power of 16 - 25 year olds in the United States.

• measures the ability of political prisoners to gain access to social media.

• measures the ability of U.S. military personnel to use social media while on duty.

• measures the use of technology in classrooms.

The global diffusion of popular culture may threaten folk culture by

• being less responsive to the diversity of local environments.

• threatening local environments through the diffusion of information by technology.

• serving as a catalyst for the advancement of folk culture.

• being more responsive to the diversity of local environments.

Marriage dowries in India reflect

• that some families value male children more.

• a legally enforced tradition.

• a popular fad.

• the value of women as mothers and wives.

• that most families value female children more.