Exam 4: Folk and Popular Culture

Which country would have a higher per capita consumption of pork, India or China? Why?

The ________ is an important source area for U.S. folk house types.

Which aspect of the local environment is the least important for wine production?

The origin of popular music is a good example of how folk culture originates.

Which of the following characteristics is more typical of popular culture than folk culture?

The global diffusion of popular culture may threaten folk culture by

Apply the insights on the diffusion of soccer to another sport with which you are familiar (without doing additional, outside research), to formulate a hypothesis about the origins and spread of your sport.

More precise geographic information is given on the label of an expensive bottle of wine than on an inexpensive bottle.

Thinking about your recent use of social media (or that of your friends, if you do not use social media), what kinds of popular culture have you been most active in diffusing or maintaining? What perspectives on this behavior does cultural geography provide?

Jeans provide a good example of material culture that is adopted by a number of different societies. They are also an example of

The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of a group of people, is a

Over the course of three days, keep a detailed record of all of the wrappers, containers, bottles, cans, vegetable matter, and other items that you (a) throw into the garbage or (b) throw into a recycling bin. Record each item on a separate line, noting its size, weight, and makeup (animal, vegetable, mineral, paper, etc.). On the third day, compare your list to that of three or four classmates. How much of the waste was directly linked to popular culture? How might you change this pattern in the future? And in what ways did this project affect your habits-that is, did you throw away less waste because you were paying special attention, or were other factors involved? How would you judge the environmental impact of your classmates in comparison?

The spatial distribution of soccer during the twentieth century is an example of

In what ways do folk cultures respond differently than popular cultures to variations in the local physical environment?

The distribution of alcohol consumption in the United States displays which characteristic of popular culture?

Although folk cultures have the same process of origin as popular culture, they have a more limited process of diffusion.

On your college campus (in common areas, your residence, or your classroom), discuss one way in which popular culture contributes to the depletion of scarce natural resources. What factors (geographical and other) seem most to blame? And how could the situation be improved?

Given recent trends in communications, in the next five years the number of television programs viewed over the Internet might be expected to

Evaluate your use of the Internet over the last two weeks. In what way, if any, has your use of social media, search engines, or other applications promoted or reinforced the interest of folk (not popular) culture? If none of your recent Internet activities have involved folk culture, when is the last time that you saw electronic resources supporting folk culture, and in what way? Does your personal Internet use represent an indirect threat to some aspect(s) of folk culture? Why or why not?

The diffusion of jeans is a good example primarily of the