Intro Folk & Popular Culture Exam

The French language, how to weave a basket, and the belief in ancestral spirits are all examples of 

• Mentifacts

• Artifacts

• Cultural hearths

• Cultural traits

• Dialects

A group of people with a common culture and history who occupy an area are called

• A state

• A country

• A nation

• A political state

• A nation-state

The charter group of Quebec, Canada, was the

• British

• Germans

• French

• Irish

• Spanish

Which of the following characteristics is more typical of a popular culture than a folk culture?

• It has an anonymous origin.

• It diffuses slowly from its points of origin

• It results in a more uniform landscape.

• It is likely to be derived from physical conditions.

• Communication is more limited.

Folk culture is spread primarily by

• Contagious diffusion

• Hierarchical diffusion

• Relocation diffusion

• Stimulus diffusion

• Epidemic diffusion

Rapid diffusion of popular culture

• Encourages people in different places to adopt different customs 

• Depends on modern communications systems

• Is an example of relocation diffusion

• Conserves resources

• All of the above

Typically, popular culture

• Originates in a number of locations at the same time.

• Reflects the characteristics of a distinctive physical environment

• Experiences frequent changes

• Is practiced by small homogeneous groups

• All of the above

Historically, cultural diffusion patterns in the United States have tended to flow in which general direction?

• East to west

• West to east

• North to south

• South to north

• Northwest to southeast

Pioneer farmers settling the grasslands of the American West often built houses of sod, while early settlers of eastern forests built wooden structures like log cabins. This suggests that building materials

• Are strongly influenced by local resources

• Are commonly imported long distances because of local folk culture.

• Are chosen because of the diffusion of popular culture

• Are a uniform feature of folk culture

• All of the above

The persistence of ethnic urban enclaves in major American cities could be cited as evidence to support all of the following phenomena EXCEPT

• chain migration

• residential segregation

• structural assimilation

• multiculturalism

• multinucleated urban structure