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WorksheetsChapter 4 Culture
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 22mins
The way of life of a group of people who share similar traits, including beliefs, customs, technology, and material items.
Culture
Ethnic Group
Language Family
Connectivity
group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or place of origin
Culture
Ethnic Group
Language Family
Connectivity
Cultural diffusion is the __________ of culture traits from one culture to another
spreading
elimination
differences
dilution
A division of the earth in which people share a culture
Culture Region
Culture Hearth
Cultural Diffusion
Globalization
A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Culture Region
Culture Hearth
Cultural Diffusion
Globalization
The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point where they are worldwide
Culture Region
Culture Hearth
Cultural Diffusion
Globalization
Movement of people from place to place
Migration
Birth Rate
Death Rate
Doubling Time
A boundary developed to separate groups with religious, ideological, language, or other differences
Natural Boundary
Cultural Boundary
Geometric Boundary
A group's cultural landscape includes any changes to its environment.
false
true
This restaurant in Ketchikan, Alaska best demonstrates what concept?
Due to population growth, small towns are changing into urban centers.
Due to ethnocentrism, American culture is spreading globally.
Due to migration, food from Texas and New York arrived in Alaska.
Due to cultural diffusion, ethnic foods change the cultural landscape far from their hearth.
Which statement reflects popular culture?
It is found in a homogeneous population.
It has traits that are quick changing and diffuse rapidly.
It spreads primarily by relocation diffusion.
It is more static than folk culture.
Folk culture is best described as
customs found in large societies
traditions that rapidly move across countries
destroying the uniform landscape
customs that travel slowly and are often based in small rural areas
A custom is
represented ONLY in someone's religious life
an repetitive action that eventually defines a group of people
represented in folk cultures throughout the world but absent in popular culture
individual actions that occur over and over
Popular culture often expands through
migration or relocation diffusion
the building of roads and internet technologies
hierarchical diffusion
adoption of electricity
Which is NOT part of material culture?
Language
Food
Clothing
Shelter
Which of the following is an example of a terroir?
Buying the latest Audi car for a cross-country vacation
A Big Mac from McDonald's for lunch
Roasting food over a fire due to living near forests
Migrating to a new country for economic and political reasons
Folk culture is
Homogenous
Rural
Slowly changing / stagnant
All of the above
Folk music usually
Is created by well-known artists
Has anonymous authors over generations
Made to generate profit
Has urban hearths
Popular culture steals and/or misrepresents an aspect of folk culture for profit
Cultural assimilation
Cultural imperialism
Cultural syncretism
Cultural appropriation
An example of hierarchical diffusion
Migrant bringing their food culture to the US
McDonald's building restaurants in India but not serving beef
A celebrity adopting a new hairstyle and starting a trend
Finding out about a new song from your cousin
Popular Culture
Cultural traits such as dress, diet and music that identify and are part of today's changeable, urban-based, media-influenced western societies, Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
cultural traits such as dress modes, dwellings, customs, and institutions of usually small, traditional communities, Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
Material Culture
the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people
a group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits
Nonmaterial Culture
the beliefs practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people
the art, housing, clothing, sports, dances, foods, and other similar items constructed or created by a group of people
Placelessness
The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next
notion that what happens at the global scale directly effects what happens at the global scale directly effects what happens at a local scale, and vice versa
Folk-Housing Regions
region win which the housing stock predominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area
Folk-Housing Regions
region win which the housing stock predominantly reflects styles of building that are particular to the culture of the people who have long inhabited the area
Diffusion Routes
the spatial trajectory through which the cultural traits or other phenomena spread
The social unit primarily responsible for teaching the customs and traditions of a culture is
the schools
the family
the army
the government
A family that includes several generations.
extended family
nuclear family
social structure
cultural landscape
The parts of a people's environment that they have shaped
acculturation
cultural landscape
cultural diffusion
culture shock
Cultural diffusion is the __________ of culture traits from one culture to another
spreading
elimination
differences
dilution
A division of the earth in which people share a culture
Culture Region
Culture Hearth
Cultural Diffusion
Globalization
A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward
Culture Region
Culture Hearth
Cultural Diffusion
Globalization
Movement of people from place to place
Migration
Birth Rate
Death Rate
Doubling Time
Which statement reflects popular culture?
It is found in a homogeneous population.
It has traits that are quick changing and diffuse rapidly.
It spreads primarily by relocation diffusion.
It is more static than folk culture.
