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Introduction to Culture
What is it?
Popular Culture vs. Folk Culture
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Culture Defined
Culture: The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group
(Dictionary.com)
With your partner come up with a list of about 10 things that make up culture.
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Cultural Facets • Education • Government • Agriculture • Economy • Sport • Grooming • Values • Work ethic • Etiquette • Courtship • Recreation • Gestures
• Religion • Language • Architecture • Cuisine • Technology • Music • Dance • Sports • Medicine • Dress • Gender roles • Law
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Habits, Customs, and Definitions
• Habit: An action one person does repeatedly (biting nails, reading the newspaper each day)
• Custom: An action of a group done often enough that it becomes a characteristic of the group (clothing style choices)
• Folk Culture: Traditionally practiced by groups in homogeneous, rural, isolated areas.
• Popular Culture: Found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits even if there is much diversity.
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Popular Culture vs. Folk Culture
• Popular Culture: Hierarchical diffusion
– Rapid diffusion through modern communication and transportation
• Ex. Films or Internet
• Folk Culture: Relocation diffusion
– Slow diffusion through the actual movement of people
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Folk vs Popular Culture
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Why is folk culture only in small areas
• Physical environment – Clothing is often specific to the natural world
around people
– Food choices are often a result of what can be grown in that climate, how much land is available, and what is acceptable to be eaten
– Housing styles are initially a result of the natural world.
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Case Study: Mongolia
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Why is folk culture clustered?
• Isolation
– Throughout history, slow communication and diffusion of culture meant that even short distances could keep people from sharing cultural traits.
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Case Study: Inuit
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Why does spread of popular culture cause problems?
• Threat to folk culture
– Loss of traditional values
• Change in food, shelter, and clothing preferences because of exposure to popular culture
– changes in culture can lead to controversy, especially in very religious places.
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Case Study: United States