Folk Culture: the Amish

Folk Culture: The Amish

What am I learning today? – why folk culture is clustered and how folk culture diffuses

What will I do to show that I learned it? Complete the following reading and questions.

Use your textbook (pages 117-118), the reading “Survival of a Folk Culture: The Old Order Amish”, and the video to clips to answer the questions.

1. What is a folk culture?

2. What is the difference between material and non-material culture?

3. Why does the Amish population grow steadily?

4. Where are the core/ hearth areas where the Amish are settled?

5. How do the Amish preserve their folk culture?

6. Why are the Amish a paradox/ contradiction?

7. Through what type of migration within the United States does Amish folk culture continue to diffuse?

8. Why have they migrated?

9. What does it mean to “assimilate” into a culture?

Have the Amish assimilated?

10. As you watch the video clips, list five elements/ things that you learn.

11. Do you think that the Amish will remain a folk culture? Explain your answer.

*** Remember to go back and answer the Learning Questions***