Folk and popular culture AP Human Geography flash cards – Flashcards
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Combined values, material artifacts, and political institutions
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Culture
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What are the two parts to material culture?
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survival and leisure activities
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Repetitive act one person performs
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Habit
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What makes up a group's material culture?
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Social customs
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what makes up culture?
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A bunch of customs
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Practiced in small, isolated rural areas and may include customs like clothing, food, and housing
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Folk cilture
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In large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite other personal characteristics
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Popular culture
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Where did pop music originate from?
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Vaudeville in 1900
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How does the Amish diffuse through the US?
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Interegional
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Because of increasing leasure time, ___ ___ were formed
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Sports clubs
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Is environmental determinism true even with folk culture?
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No
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What are food, clothing, and shelter affected by in folk culture?
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Climate, soil, and vegetation
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What is a Bostan?
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A small garden in Istanbul, turkey
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How does the environment impact the types of foods produced in a place where mainly folk culture is practiced?
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Climate, soil, vegetation can prevent the growing of certain things especially in places where advanced technology has not diffused there yet
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What is a restriction on behavior based on social customs?
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Taboo
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What can also be a factor when groups or religions are coming up with taboos?
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The environment and how it affects getting or growing food
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What do Hindus have a taboo on?
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Cows
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Can social reasons for not eating food be considered a taboo?
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Yes
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Contribution of locations physical features to way food tastes (used for wine)
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Terroir
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What do Muslims have a taboo against?
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Pork
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Fred kniffen said that houses reflect ____ _____, ____ _____, ____ _____, _____ _____
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Cultural heritage, current fashion, functional needs, and environmental impact
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What do the paintings from Southeast Asia from different groups show?
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They all live in a relatively same environment, but because of their different culture, they have different views on the environment so they paint different things
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Why do the front doors in the houses of Java face south?
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Because it's towards the sun goddess
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What wall in the house of Fiji is sacred?
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East
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What is another name for the lower Chesapeake folk housing style in America?
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Tidewater
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What are some characteristics of the lower Chesapeake house?
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One story, steep roof and chimney (one room deep)
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Where did migrants spread the lower Chesapeake housing style?
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Southeast
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What type of houses are in the folk culture middle Atlantic region?
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"I" house
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What are some characteristics of the "I" house?
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Gables to sides, one room deep, went westward,
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How many different types of houses are in the New England folk housing group?
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4
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Where were the New England folk house types carried?
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Upper New England and southern great lakes
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Where were the middle Atlantic folk housing types carried to?
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Ohio valley and southwest along Appalachian trails
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Why does popular culture diffuse faster to places more economically stable?
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Because it is easier to get the material possessions required
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What is popular culture that caters to the places it is in called?
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Regional variation
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Where is bourbon typically found?
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Upper south
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Where is tequila typically found?
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Sourhwest
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What influences the amount of alcohol and snack foods?
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Cultural back grounds
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the distribution of wine production has more to do with (three things) and less with the (1 thing)
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Cultural values, beliefs, and institutions; environment
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What are 2 reasons that folk costumes are continued to be worn in places?
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To preserve memories and attract tourists
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Current house styles that are modern reflect what?
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What was popular when they were built
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What is a split-level house?
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Fist level has garage and family room, kitchen and dining rooms on second story, bedrooms on top
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What is a contemporary house style?
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Flat low pitched roofs
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What is a mansard house style?
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Second story walls slope inward to roofline
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What is the neo-Tudor house style?
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Dominant, steep pitched gavles
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What is the neo-french house style?
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Dormer windows and high pitched roofs
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What are 4 good things about popular culture?
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Gender equality upward social mobility and, business, transnational corporations provide jobs
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What is one bad thing about popular culture?
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It is a threat to folk culture and there is a loss of traditional values
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How can pop culture have a negative effect on women in LDCs?
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Women are in danger because of sex stores and women can get in trouble when they don't obey their husbands
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Why don't lust developed countries leaders like that countries such as the United States and Japan and the United Kingdom dominate the television industry in less developed countries?
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They feel American beliefs and social forms are embodied in television and pose a threat
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What is AP?
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The American source for news
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What is the reuters?
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The British source for news
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What three countries band satellite dishes so that people could not watch unmonitored programs?
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China, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore
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What type of culture is meat?
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Popular culture because it is inefficient
