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Folk and Pop Culture Erin Sinski

Folk and Pop Culture Erin Sinski. Culture. Shared set of meanings that are lived through material and symbolic practices of everyday life. A particular way of life, such as a set of skilled activities, values, & meanings surrounding a particular type of practice

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Folk and Pop Culture Erin Sinski

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  1. Folk and Pop CultureErin Sinski

  2. Culture • Shared set of meanings that are lived through material and symbolic practices of everyday life. • A particular way of life, such as a set of skilled activities, values, & meanings surrounding a particular type of practice • Habit-Repetitive act of an INDIVIDUAL • Bri goes to Starbucks every morning before school. • Custom- Repetitive act of a GROUP • Muslims pray five times a day.

  3. Cultural Geography • Study of people, material, and symbolic practices • Material- artifacts • Nonmaterial- thoughts, laws • Cultural Landscape • PHYSICAL imprint a culture makes on the environment • Historical Geography/Genre de vie • Cultural Ecology • Results of human interaction with the environment • Sequent Occupancy

  4. Human-Environment Interaction(One of the five themes of Human Geography!) • Environmental Determinism • Human behavior CONTROLLED by environment • Possibilism • Counterargument! • Environment places limits, but people propel development • Cultural Determinism • Environment places NO restrictions on human behavior. • Political Ecology • Exploration of why human culture interacts with the environment the way it does.

  5. Culture Trait • Fireworks on the Fourth of July • Culture Complex • All culture traits • No two cultures are the same! • Culture System • Many complexes with shared traits • Culture Region • Regions that include places/people with similarities in their culture systems • The South • Culture Realm • Fusing culture regions Latin America

  6. Cultural Diffusion • Expansion • Spreads outward but remains strong in hearth • Stimulus: Iced to Sweet tea • Hierarchical: Hip-hop • Contagious: Disease • Relocation • Actual movement from hearth to new place • Migrant Diffusion • Innovation spreads but only last a brief time • Band groupies

  7. Hearths • An area where innovations in culture began. They are sources of human civilization. Often developed in places with capacity for innovation (water and arable land). • Ancient Hearths • Mesoamerica • Nile River Valley • Indus River Valley • Huang River Valley

  8. TorstenHagerstrand • Innovations diffuse from hearths in stages • Stage 1- Acceptance in place of origin • Early adopters • Stage 2- Spread rapidly outward • Majority adopters • Stage 3- Diffusion slows down and dispersal/saturation reaches maximum level. • The late adopters phase

  9. Acculturation • Weaker culture adopts traits from the stronger one. • Assimilation • Original traits of the weaker culture are completely replaced • Transculturation • Two cultures of equal power meet and exchange. • Cultural Convergence • Two cultures adopt traits and become more alike • Cultural Divergence • Two culture become more different

  10. Folk Culture • Limited to smaller region/group of people • Homogeneous • Rural community • Anonymous hearths • Resistance to change • Diffuses slowly/relocation diffusion

  11. Popular Culture • Large heterogeneous societies • Diffuses rapidly • Expansion Diffusion • Hierarchical • Can threaten local distinctiveness • Cultural homogeneity • Globalization • Western Media Imperialism • US, Britain, and Japan dominate media • Environmental Problems • MDCs

  12. Cultural Imperialism • Invasion of a culture with intent to dominate • Cultural Nationalism • Resistance of a group against cultural imperialism and convergence. • Taboo • Restriction on behavior imposed by social customs

  13. Folk Housing • Product of cultural traditions and natural conditions • Distinctive materials from environment • US Folk Housing • Lower Chesapeake-Tidewater style • One story • Middle Atlantic-Principle House • “I” house, Two stories, gables on side • New England • Saltbox, Two-Chimney, Cape cod, and front gable and wing.

  14. Folk vs. Pop Culture Game

  15. Small Rural Community? FOLK POP

  16. Winner!

  17. Hierarchical Diffusion? POP FOLK

  18. Winner!

  19. Most Sports originated in which culture? POP FOLK

  20. Winner!

  21. Environmental Determinism affects which culture the most? POP FOLK

  22. Winner!

  23. Taboos are often found in countries dominated by which culture? POP FOLK

  24. Winner!

  25. This culture has turned to tourism to help revitalize? POP FOLK

  26. Winner!

  27. This culture often uses the environment for leisure activities? POP FOLK

  28. Winner!

  29. Breaking Amish, the reality TV show, is an example of which type of culture? POP FOLK

  30. Winner!

  31. This culture’s music tells a story or conveys information? POP FOLK

  32. Winner!

  33. Reinforces gender roles and traditions of family? POP FOLK

  34. Winner!

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