Chapter 4 Key Issues #1 & #2 QUIZ

Folk and Popular Culture

  1. Which of the following statements about culture is NOT true?
  1. Culture is the learned way of life of a social group
  2. Culture shapes human perceptions of the environment
  3. Culture is genetically tied and transmitted as a racial characteristic
  4. Culture is a temporal and spatial variable
  5. Culture is dynamic and changes over time
  1. From highest(largest) to lowest (smallest), the most accurate representation of cultural units is:
  1. complex, realm, region, trait
  2. realm, universal, region, trait
  3. realm, region, complex, trait
  4. trait, complex, region, realm
  5. trait, universal, region, realm
  1. The area of origin of a culture is called
  2. cultural homeland
  3. culture hearth
  4. cultural landscape
  5. culture realm
  6. cultural core
  7. The elements of the ideological subsystem of a culture
  1. are the concrete material evidence of the ideas and concepts of society
  2. are the intangible items that give distinctive content and character to a culture
  3. summarize the formal organizational structure of a culture
  4. define the mental and educational capabilities of a culture
  5. are most commonly shaped by environmental factors
  1. Syncretism is the process of:
  1. delaying the path of diffusion
  2. adoption of the traits of a more dominant culture
  3. fusing elements of different cultures into a uniquely new culture
  4. rigorously organizing agricultural activities
  5. Assimilation of a culture group into a larger dominant culture
  1. Rapid diffusion of popular culture
  2. Depends on modern communication systems
  3. Evolves from the isolation of different groups
  4. Reflects the unique characteristics of the landscape
  5. Has an unknown source of origin
  6. Varies from place to place
  7. Popular customs most frequently originate in
  8. Former communist countries
  9. More developed countries
  10. Countries with large rural populations
  11. Less developed countries
  12. Equally likely in all of the above
  13. A taboo against pork is characteristic of:
  14. Judaism and Islam
  15. Christianity and Buddhism
  16. Islam and Hinduism
  17. Judaism and Buddhism
  18. Christianity and Hinduism
  19. The visible imprint of human activity on the earth’s surface in known as:
  1. spatial interaction
  2. the attributes of the setting
  3. the cultural landscape
  4. the natural landscape
  5. human geography
  1. The use of the horse and buggy by the Amish in the United States is an example of
  2. syncretism
  3. Folk culture
  4. Popular culture
  5. Taboo
  6. Habit
  7. Which of the following characteristics is more typical of a popular culture than a folk culture?
  8. It has an anonymous origin
  9. It is likely to be derived from physical conditions
  10. It diffuses slowly from its point of origin
  11. Communication is more limited
  12. It results in a more uniform landscape
  13. Popular customs are more likely than folk customs to
  14. Rapidly diffuse through modern communication systems
  15. Evolve from the isolation of different groups
  16. Reflect the unique characteristics of the landscape
  17. Have an unknown source of origin
  18. Vary from place to place
  19. Typically, popular culture
  20. Originates in a number of locations at the same time
  21. Is practiced by small homogeneous groups
  22. Experiences frequent changes
  23. Reflects the characteristics of a distinctive physical environment
  24. Exists in a country in Stage 1 or 2 of the Demographic Transition Model
  25. In contrast to popular culture, folk cultures are more likely to vary
  26. Both from time to time and from place to place
  27. From time to time at a given place
  28. From place to place at a given time
  29. With rapid change
  30. Neither from place to place nor from time to time
  31. The main effect of modern communications on social customs has been to
  32. Have little effect on the diffusion of social customs
  33. Preserve folk cultures, by increasing awareness of their uniqueness
  34. Stimulate the diffusion of folk cultures around the world
  35. Increase the similarity of social customs in different locations
  36. Slow the rate of change
  37. Folk customs usually originate from
  38. A famous historical event
  39. The application of industrial technology
  40. The availability of more leisure time
  41. Familiar events in daily life
  42. Global economic exchange
  43. Folk songs are distinguished from popular songs because they
  44. Are written by specialists for commercial distribution
  45. Attempt to cross cultural lines and appeal to a mass audience
  46. Usually change from one generation to the next
  47. Can usually be understood by only a small group
  48. Are rarely transmitted orally
  49. The current distribution of soccer demonstrates that
  50. American football is also an example of a folk culture
  51. A folk custom can become part of a popular custom
  52. All sports are examples of folk culture
  53. Television has infused all sports into popular culture
  54. Sport is more important in less developed countries
  1. Popular Culture is characterized by all of the following except
  2. quickly changing attributes
  3. homogeneous population
  4. urban population
  5. globalization
  6. uniform landscapes
  7. In folk societies, materials used for building homes
  8. are selected for the recyclable properties
  9. are often imported from distant countries
  10. are available locally
  11. are symbolic in nature
  12. are mass produced to make them cheaper and more accessible
  13. The present-day diffusion of blue jeans is a good example primarily of the:
  14. opposition to globalization
  15. synthetic textile replacing natural fibers
  16. global diffusion of popular culture
  17. adoption of unique folk culture
  18. impact of high income on clothing habits
  19. All of the following are true of popular clothing styles EXCEPT:
  20. they are most affected by climate, environment, and available resources
  21. they are most influenced by occupation and income
  22. in the past they diffused hierarchically from hearths like New York, London, and Milan
  23. they are readily available to most people through online shopping
  24. they reflect a dispersed, global distribution pattern
  25. Pioneer farmers settling in the grasslands of the American West often built houses of sod, while early settlers of the Eastern Woodlands built wooden structures like log cabins. This suggests that building materials.
  26. are commonly imported long distances because of local folk culture
  27. are chosen because of the diffusion of popular culture
  28. are a uniform feature of folk culture
  29. are strongly influenced by local resources
  30. are irrelevant in most places
  31. Diffusion of popular customs can adversely impact environmental quality in two ways:
  32. depletion of scarce resources and pollution
  33. diversity of products and slow change’
  34. increased diversity and decreased demand
  35. reducing demand for foreign products and increasing demand for local crafts
  36. using renewable materials and recycled designs
  37. A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a:
  38. habit
  39. prohibition
  40. taboo
  41. popular culture
  42. convergence