Popular vs. Folk Culture

Folk culture is mostly diffused by

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Stimulus Diffusion

• Relocation Diffusion

• Expansion Diffusion

Popular culture is mostly diffused by

• Hierarchical Diffusion

• Stimulus Diffusion

• Relocation Diffusion

• Expansion Diffusion

Popular culture characteristics include...

• Practiced by large population

• Traditional

• Spread by all types of diffusion

• Rabid changes because of globalization

• Relatively unchanged

Folk culture characteristics include...

• Practiced by large population

• Traditional

• Maintains unique identity

• Rabid changes because of globalization

• Relatively unchanged

Habit

• repetitive acts of a group

• common unique feature of culture

• Repetitive act of a person

• collection of customs

Custom

• repetitive acts of a group

• common unique feature of culture

• Repetitive act of a person

• collection of customs

Traits

• A bunch of cultural traits

• common unique feature of culture

• practiced by small, homogenous groups

• collection of customs

Folk culture's distribution is...

• limited by physical features and access to materials

• Everywhere due to globalization

• No where

Popular culture's distribution is...

• limited by physical features and access to materials

• Everywhere due to globalization

• No where

Complex

• A bunch of cultural traits

• common unique feature of culture

• practiced by small, homogenous groups

• collection of customs