Unit 2 Folk and Pop Culture

Define: Culture

• Culture is the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition.

• Culture is the gasp you receive when Pikachu finally evolves into Raichu.

• Culture is subtraction of habits and customs, yet is still the combination of metaphysical and physical traits to form the basis of societies condition.

• Culture is the custom of a group of people that likes to build custom furniture

Define: Custom

• A habit of a individual that through Repetition gets adopted by the neighboring town.

• A habit that a group of people have, which devolves into a habit that only one person has.

• The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act

• A customer who repetitively drops a product and annoys the shop owner.

Choose the responses that accurately represent Folk Culture

• Music that folky people listen to.

• It's found in homogeneous societies.

• Quickly diffuses through modern communication technologies.

• Diffuses slowly through migration of people.

Choose answers that accurately portray Popular Culture

• It's responsible for creating uniform societies.

• It diffuses very quickly though the use of modern communication technologies.

• Only occurs in solitary regions.

• It's found in heterogeneous societies.

The physical characteristics that make up Material Culture are...

• Culture

• Recreation, Bullfighting, tea, and Pokemon

• Leisure, Recreation, Food, Shelter, and Water

• Leisure, Movies, Sushi, Masks, and School.

Define: Taboo

• A habit that has become popular as a result of repetition.

• What people say when they can't say Tattoo.

• A action or custom that everyone is comfortable and supportive of.

• Restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.

Define: Homogeneous

• Is a family member that shares similar genes

• Is an area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics

• Is an area within which everyone does not share a common one or more distinctive characteristic.

• When everyone is wearing the same jeans

Define: Heterogeneous

• A diverse group of people, thought, or belief in a society

• A region of people who have similar beliefs, thoughts, and pants in its society.

• Different roles of genes in the body.

• Synonym of Homogeneous.