Folk and Pop Culture Erin Sinski

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Folk and Pop CultureErin Sinski
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Culture

• Shared set of meanings that are lived through
  material and symbolic practices of everyday life.
• A particular way of life, such as a set of
  skilled activities, values, meanings
  surrounding a particular type of practice
• Habit-Repetitive act of an INDIVIDUAL
• Bri goes to Starbucks every morning before
  school.
• Custom- Repetitive act of a GROUP
• Muslims pray five times a day.

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• Cultural Geography
• Study of people, material, and symbolic practices
  
• Material- artifacts
• Nonmaterial- thoughts, laws
• Cultural Landscape
• PHYSICAL imprint a culture makes on the
  environment
• Historical Geography/Genre de vie
• Cultural Ecology
• Results of human interaction with the environment
• Sequent Occupancy

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Human-Environment Interaction(One of the five
themes of Human Geography!)

• Environmental Determinism
• Human behavior CONTROLLED by environment

• Possibilism
• Counterargument!
• Environment places limits, but people propel
  development

• Cultural Determinism
• Environment places NO restrictions on human
  behavior.

• Political Ecology
• Exploration of why human culture interacts with
  the environment the way it does.

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• Culture Trait
• Fireworks on the Fourth of July
• Culture Complex
• All culture traits
• No two cultures are the same!
• Culture System
• Many complexes with shared traits
• Culture Region
• Regions that include places/people with
  similarities in their culture systems
• The South
• Culture Realm
• Fusing culture regions Latin America

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Cultural Diffusion

• Expansion
• Spreads outward but remains strong in hearth
• Stimulus Iced to Sweet tea
• Hierarchical Hip-hop
• Contagious Disease

• Relocation
• Actual movement from hearth to new place
• Migrant Diffusion
• Innovation spreads but only last a brief time
• Band groupies

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Hearths

• An area where innovations in culture began. They
  are sources of human civilization. Often
  developed in places with capacity for innovation
  (water and arable land).
• Ancient Hearths
• Mesoamerica
• Nile River Valley
• Indus River Valley
• Huang River Valley

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Torsten Hagerstrand

• Innovations diffuse from hearths in stages
• Stage 1- Acceptance in place of origin
• Early adopters
• Stage 2- Spread rapidly outward
• Majority adopters
• Stage 3- Diffusion slows down and
  dispersal/saturation reaches maximum level.
• The late adopters phase

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• Cultural Convergence
• Two cultures adopt traits and become more alike
• Cultural Divergence
• Two culture become more different

• Acculturation
• Weaker culture adopts traits from the stronger
  one.
• Assimilation
• Original traits of the weaker culture are
  completely replaced
• Transculturation
• Two cultures of equal power meet and exchange.

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Folk Culture

• Limited to smaller region/group of people
• Homogeneous
• Rural community
• Anonymous hearths
• Resistance to change
• Diffuses slowly/relocation diffusion

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Popular Culture

• Large heterogeneous societies
• Diffuses rapidly
• Expansion Diffusion
• Hierarchical
• Can threaten local distinctiveness
• Cultural homogeneity
• Globalization
• Western Media Imperialism
• US, Britain, and Japan dominate media
• Environmental Problems
• MDCs

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• Cultural Imperialism
• Invasion of a culture with intent to dominate
• Cultural Nationalism
• Resistance of a group against cultural
  imperialism and convergence.

• Taboo
• Restriction on behavior imposed by social customs

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Folk Housing

• Product of cultural traditions and natural
  conditions
• Distinctive materials from environment
• US Folk Housing
• Lower Chesapeake-Tidewater style
• One story
• Middle Atlantic-Principle House
• I house, Two stories, gables on side
• New England
• Saltbox, Two-Chimney, Cape cod, and front gable
  and wing.

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Folk vs. Pop Culture Game
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Small Rural Community?

• FOLK

POP
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Winner!
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Hierarchical Diffusion?
POP

• FOLK

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Winner!
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Most Sports originated in which culture?
POP

• FOLK

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Winner!
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Environmental Determinism affects which culture
the most?
POP

• FOLK

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Winner!
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Taboos are often found in countries dominated by
which culture?
POP

• FOLK

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Winner!
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This culture has turned to tourism to help
revitalize?
POP

• FOLK

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Winner!
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This culture often uses the environment for
leisure activities?
POP

• FOLK

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Winner!
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Breaking Amish, the reality TV show, is an
example of which type of culture?
POP

• FOLK

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Winner!
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This cultures music tells a story or conveys
information?
POP

• FOLK

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Winner!
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Reinforces gender roles and traditions of family?
POP

• FOLK

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Winner!