AP HG Unit 3 (Pop/Folk, Language, Religion) Review

Folk Culture is

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

The Industrial Revolution moved cultural hearths to 

• Latin America
• Europe and North America
• East Asia
• Southwest Asia

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

What is an example of relocation diffusion?

• wearing jeans
• listening to rap music
• a Mexican family moving to Australia
• watching a movie

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 

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

A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a

• Folk culture
• Habit
• Popular culture
•  Taboo

Compared to popular cultures, folk cultures tend to be:

• more cosmopolitan
• more homogenous
• more diffuse
• more contagious