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Culture

Culture. Objective : Students will compare and contrast folk and popular culture by researching the habits and customs of a country. Drill: In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of A) Small heterogeneous groups B) Large heterogeneous groups

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  1. Culture

  2. Objective: Students will compare and contrast folk and popular culture by researching the habits and customs of a country. • Drill: In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of • A) Small heterogeneous groups • B) Large heterogeneous groups • C) Groups living in isolated rural areas • D) Groups that have little interaction with others • E) Groups of specialists

  3. Objective: Students will examine the characteristics of folk culture by studying Amish culture. • Drill: Folk cultures are spread primarily by: • A) Contagious diffusion • B) Hierarchical diffusion • C) Contagious diffusion • D) Relocation diffusion • E) Stimulus diffusion

  4. 1. How was soccer transformed from a folk custom into pop culture? • 2. List 5 different examples of food habits and the unique folk cultures each illustrates. • List 5 foods that are unique to a culture and state why they are unique to that culture.

  5. Important Terminology • Folk Culture – traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation. • Popular Culture – found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in personal characteristics. • Material Culture – the physical objects produced by a culture in order to meet its material needs: food, clothing, shelter, arts, and recreation. Carl Sauer (Berkeley, 1930s – 1970s).

  6. Folk Culture – rapidly changing and/or disappearing throughout much of the world. Guatemalan Market Portuguese Fishing Boat Turkish Camel Market

  7. Folk Culture • Stable and close knit • Usually a rural community • Tradition controls • Resistance to change • Buildings erected without architect or blueprint using locally available building materials • anonymous origins, diffuses slowly through migration. Develops over time. • Clustered distributions:isolation/lack of interaction breed uniqueness and ties to physical environment.

  8. FOLK ARCHITECTURE

  9. FOLK ARCHITECTURE • Effects on Landscape:usually of limited scale and scope. Agricultural: fields, terraces, grain storage Dwellings: historically created from local materials: wood, brick, stone, skins; often uniquely and traditionally arranged; always functionally tied to physical environment.

  10. Hog Production and Food Cultures Fig. 4-6: Annual hog production is influenced by religious taboos against pork consumption in Islam and other religions. The highest production is in China, which is largely Buddhist.

  11. U.S. House Types by Region Small towns in different regions of the eastern U.S. have different combinations of five main traditional house types.

  12. North American Folk Culture Regions

  13. Important Terms • Custom – frequent repetition of an act until it becomes characteristic of a group of people.. • Taboo – a restriction on behavior imposed by social custom. • Habit – repetitive act performed by an individual.

  14. Food Taboos: Jews – can’t eat animals that chew cud, that have cloven feet; can’t mix meat and milk, or eat fish lacking fins or scales; Muslims – no pork; Hindus – no cows (used for oxen during monsoon) Washing Cow in Ganges

  15. Amish

  16. Amish

  17. Which is more typical of a popular culture than a folk culture? A) It has an anonymous origin B) It diffuses slowly from its hearth C) It results in a more uniform landscape D) It is likely to be derived from physical conditions E) Communication is more limited

  18. Folk customs usually originate from A) the availability of more leisure time B) the application of industrial technology C) familiar events in daily life D) a famous historical event E) global economic exchange

  19. What do clothing styles in MDCs of North American and Western Europe generally reflect? • What do clothing styles in LDCs generally reflect? • What is one technology that is causing governments in countries like China and Saudi Arabia to lose control of TV programming?

  20. Popular Culture Clothing: Jeans, for example, and have become valuable status symbols in many regions including Asia and Russia despite longstanding folk traditions.

  21. Popular Culture Wide Distribution: differences from place to place uncommon, more likely differences at one place over time. Housing:only small regional variations, more generally there are trends over time Food: franchises, cargo planes, superhighways and freezer trucks have eliminated much local variation. Limited variations in choice regionally, esp. with alcohol and snacks. Substantial variations by ethnicity.

  22. Diffusion of TV, 1954–1999 Television has diffused widely since the 1950s, but some areas still have low numbers of TVs per population. • Much media is still state-controlled. • Ten Most Censored Countries: • North Korea • Myanmar (Burma) • Turkmenistan • Equatorial Guinea • Libya • Eritrea • Cuba • Uzbekistan • Syria • Belarus • Source: The Committee to Protect Journalists. www.cpj.org.

  23. Internet Connections The Internet is diffusing today, but access varies widely.

  24. Internet Connections The Internet is diffusing today, but access varies widely. Some countries censor the Internet, but this is much harder to do.

  25. Popular Culture Effects on Landscape: creates homogenous, “placeless” (Relph, 1976), landscape • Complex network of roads and highways • Commercial Structures tend towards ‘boxes’ • Dwellings may be aesthetically suggestive of older folk traditions • Planned and Gated Communities more and more common

  26. Surfing at Disney’s Orlando Typhoon Lagoon Are places still tied to local landscapes? Disconnect with landscape: indoor swimming pools? desert surfing?

  27. Dubai’s Indoor Ski Resort Swimming Pool, West Edmonton Mall, Canada

  28. Muslim Women in Traditional Dress at Indoor Ski Resort

  29. http://dtsdapache.hershey.k12.pa.us/wpmu/hs_aphg/category/non-contiguous-diffusion/page/2/http://dtsdapache.hershey.k12.pa.us/wpmu/hs_aphg/category/non-contiguous-diffusion/page/2/

  30. Problems with the Globalization of Culture Often Destroys Folk Culture – or preserves traditions as museum pieces or tourism gimmicks. • Mexican Mariachis; Polynesian Navigators; Cruise Line Simulations • Change in Traditional Roles and Values; Polynesian weight problems Satellite Television, Baja California

  31. Environmental Problems with Cultural Globalization Accelerated Resource Use through Accelerated Consumption • Furs: minx, lynx, jaguar, kangaroo, whale, sea otters (18th Century Russians) fed early fashion trends. • Consumerism evident in most Western Media fashions, including hip hop and rock and roll. • Inefficient over-consumption of Meats (10:1), Poultry (3:1), even Fish (fed other fish and chicken) by meat-eating pop cultures • Mineral Extraction for Machines, Plastics and Fuel • New larger housing desires and associated energy and water use. • Golf courses use valuable water and destroy habitat worldwide. Pollution: waste from fuel generation and discarded products, plastics, marketing and packaging materials

  32. Problems with the Globalization of Popular Culture Western Media Imperialism? • U.S., Britain, and Japan dominate worldwide media. • Glorified consumerism, violence, sexuality, and militarism? • U.S. (Networks and CNN) and British (BBC) news media provide/control the dissemination of information worldwide. • These networks are unlikely to focus or provide third world perspective on issues important in the LDCs.

  33. Beijing, China Palm Springs, CA

  34. Marlboro Man in Egypt

  35. Fiji

  36. “Progress?”

  37. Globalization • Why is it so hard to keep local, folk culture?

  38. Amish video

  39. As you enter • Please locate your homework chart • Please locate your movie questions from “Contestant #2” • Drill • Folk customs usually originate from A) the availability of more leisure time B) the application of industrial technology C) familiar events in daily life D) a famous historical event E) global economic exchange

  40. Drill 11/7 • The main effect of modern communications on social customs has been to: • A) preserve folk cultures by increasing awareness of their uniqueness • B) stimulate the diffusion of folk cultures around the world • C) Increase the similarity of social customs in different locations • D) Have little effect on the diffusion of social customs • E) all of the above

  41. As you enter • Find HW • Get out 1 ½ sheets of paper

  42. HW Quiz • 1. Which three countries dominate the world television industry? • 2. What are the world’s 2 largest newspaper organizations? Who owns them? • 3. What is the only reliable, unbiased news source in the world? Who owns it?

  43. AP Exam Registration • Fill out form • Check or money order made payable to North County High School. • Due Date: • A Day: Thursday 11/17 • B Day: Friday 11/18

  44. Music • How did you become a “knower” of your favorite kind of music? • Where is its hearth? • How did it reach you? • What type of diffusion?

  45. Example of Music • Folk Music • Daily activities; work songs • Story telling; farming • Life Cycle events; births, deaths • Mysterious events

  46. Popular Music • Originated in the early 1900’s • Vaudeville and the music hall • Tin Pan Alley • NYC

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