CH.4 Culture and Social Media

The body of customary beliefs, social forms and material traits that constitute a group's distinct traditions would best describe a specific population's

• Religious Organization

• Education System

• Culture

• Political Agenda

Cultural diversity is created and maintained by

• the connections between homogeneous groups.

• the relative isolation of a group from others.

• increasing globalization.

• expansion diffusion.

Little wine is produced in Southwest Asia & North Africa primarily because

• the people do not have a tradition of wine making

• religious taboos discourage consumption.

• wines can be imported more cheaply.

Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by many different societies. They are also an example of

• Popular Culture

• Fold Culture

• White collar culture

• punk culture

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

• Taboo

• habit

• custom

• character

Cultural diversity is created and maintained by

• the rapid movement of goods and services across borders

• the relative isolation of a group from others.

• increasing globalization.

What type of music, reflective of local neighborhood conditions, originated in the late 1970s in the South Bronx?

• Hip Hop

• R&B

• Death Metal

• Country and Western

In recent decades, popular customs have most frequently originated in

• More developed countries

• countries with large rural populations

• Latin America and Africa

• Less developed countries.

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

• refusal to teach other customs in schools.

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

• inability to set up telephone service.

Baseball's expansion from the Western hemisphere to Asia is the result of

• Brain Drain

• Relocation Diffusion

• Hierarchal Diffusion

• Syncretism