Pop vs. Folk Culture

Popular culture characteristics include (3 answers)...

• Practiced by large population

• Traditional

• Spread by all types of diffusion

• Rapid changes because of globalization

• Relatively unchanged

Folk culture's distribution is...

• limited by physical features and access to materials

• Everywhere due to globalization

• No where

Folk culture

• practiced by small homogeneous groups in isolated, rural areas

• practiced by large heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite being different.

Popular culture

• practiced by small homogeneous groups in isolated, rural areas

• practiced by large heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite being different.

What type of Cultural Diffusion?

• Stimulus

• Relocation

• Hieararchial

• Contagious

Migration is an excellent example of _____________ diffusion?

• relocation
• hierarchical 
• cultural
• contageous

Popular culture's distribution is...

• limited by physical features and access to materials

• Everywhere due to globalization

• No where

Hierarchical diffusion means that the culture is diffused 

• from place to place in a random way
• from those in authority or the famous
• because of popular culture
• from culture to culture

The point of origin for a cultural trend is a______________________.

• cultural hearth

• counterculture

• subculture

• popular culture

evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.

• ethnocentrism

• sense of force

• sequent occupancy

• placemaking