Unit 4 Test Review: Folk and Pop Culture

The main effect of modern communications has been to...

• preserve folk cultures, by increasing awareness of their uniqueness.

• stimulate the diffusion of folk cultures around the world.

• spread popular culture through hierarchical diffusion.

• prevent the diffusion of social customs.

Folk cultures are spread primarily by...

• contagious diffusion.

• hierarchical diffusion.

•  relocation diffusion.

• stimulus diffusion.

A repetitive act performed by an individual is a...

• custom.

• popular culture.

• habit.

• taboo.

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

people is a...

• custom.

• popular culture.

•  habit.

• taboo.

In contrast to popular culture, folk cultures

• are traditionally practiced primarily by small homogeneous groups living in relative isolation

  from other groups.

• are found in large, heterogenous societies that share certain customs.

• tend to be similar across vast regions of Earth.

•  tend to change rapidly as popular culture changes.

Culture originates at a(n)...

• habit.

• process.

• custom.

• hearth.

___culture is transmitted from one location to another relatively slowly and on a small

scale, primarily through relocation ___.

• Folk, diffusion

• Folk, distribution

• Popular, diffusion

• Popular, distribution

Popular culture...

• has a distinctive distribution influenced by a combination of local physical and cultural

  factors.

• is distributed widely across many countries with little regard for physical factors.

• spreads primarily through relocation diffusion.

•  is transmitted slowly from one location to the next on a small scale.

Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different

societies. This refers to what type of material culture?

•  punk culture

• popular culture

• folk culture

• western culture

The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish in the United States is an example of a...

• folk culture.

•  habit.

• popular culture.

• taboo.