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is the body of material traits, customary beliefs, and social forms that constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people
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culture
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1. how each cultural activity has a distinct spatial distribution
2. the relation between how a cultural group take particular elements fromt bhe enviornment into its culture and in turn constructs landscapes that modify nature in distinctive ways
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2 aspects of where material traits are located that geographers focus on
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can be distinguished from habit or custom
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culture
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a repetivtive act that a particular individual performs
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habit
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2 categories material culture falls into
Definition
- folk culture
-popular culture
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traditionally practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups in isolated areas
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folk culture
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found in large heterogeneous societies that share certain customs despite differences in other personal characteristics
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popular culture
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covers territory more than folk culture
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popular culture
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often a product of developed regions like europe and north america
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pop culture
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a product of developed regions from a combination of advances in industrial technology and increased leisure time
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pop culture
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songs that are composed anonymously and transmitted orally
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folk culture
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may be modified from one generation to the next as conditions change
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folk songs
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tell a story or convey information about daily activities
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folk songs
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written by specific individuals for the purpose of being sold to a large nunber of people
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pop culture music
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displays high degree of technical skill and is frequently capable of being performed only in a studio with electronic equipment
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pop culture music
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originated around 1900
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pop culture music
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have more connectiosn with performers of similar styles elsewhere in the world
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pop culture music
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originated as a folk custom in England during the eleventh century and was transformed into a part of global popular culture in the nineteenth centurty
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soccer
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ealiest contest took place after denmark invaded england between 1018 and 1042
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soccer
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was first played in continental europe int he late 1870s
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football
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popular primarily in the United Kingdom and former british colonies
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cricket
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sport that it is canada, Northern United States, Northern Europe, and Russia
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Ice Hockey
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popular sport in china
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martial arts known as wushu
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was introduced in japan by WW2 soldiers
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baseball
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another way of saying lacrosse
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bump hips
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most likely to vary by place
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folk culture
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are reflected in eighteenth and early nineteenth century housing in the united states
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folk-culture
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when families migrated in the 1700s and 1800s this reflected whatever upscale style was prevailing at the place they moved to
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homes
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popular cultures influences are seen in
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housing built in 1940s
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houses in this centurt display popular culture influences
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20th century
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shows the rapdily changing fashion concerning the most suitible house form
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housing
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communication and trsnportation systems provide people throughout the country with knowledge of alternative styles
Definition
why regional distinctiveness in housing has diminished
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small, house young families, one story, with a dominant front gable and few decorative details
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minimal traditional housing
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one story were usually situated with the long side parallel to the street
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ranch house
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lower level contained the garage and the newly invented family room
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split-level
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had flat or lowpitched roofs and were especially popular for architect-designed houses
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contemporary housing
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popular in the late 1960s, high-pitched shed roofs, gave house apparance of a series of geometric forms
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shed
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shingle-covered second story walls sloped slightly inward and merged into the roofline
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mansard
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style was characterized by dominant steep-pitched
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neo-tudor
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featured dormor windows usually with rounded tops, and high-hipped roofs
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neo-french
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large central great room, has raplaced separate family and living rooms, which were located in different wings or floorsof ranch and split-level houses
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neo-colonial
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restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
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taboo
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-are strong in the area of food
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taboos
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taboos against consumption of food can be found in
Definition
the bible and Quran
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developed through oral tradition and by rabbis into the kosher laws observed today by some jews
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biblical taboos
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is a prohibition against consuming animals that do not chew their food and that have cloven feet, like pigs and seafood lacking fins or scales liek lobsters
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biblical taboos
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religions that are kosher
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muslims and jews
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taboo against pork
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muslim
Term
traditional food preferences are embedded in
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physical environment
Term
when people refuse to eat particular animal or plant its because
Definition
they are thought to embody negative forces in the enviornment
Term
hindus dont eat cows because
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cows are a valuable need to their society
Term
enviornment influences:
Definition
-folk food preferences
-contributes to the characteristics of foods traditionally produced in a particular area
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contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes
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terroir
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Vineyards are the best cultivated in temperate climates of moderately cold, rainy winters and fairly, long, hot summers
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uses of terroir with climate
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vineyards are planted in hillsides if, possible to maximize exposure to sunlight and to facillitate drainage
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uses of terrior with landforms
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grapes can be grown in a variety of soils, but the best wine tends to be produced from grapes grown in soil that is coarse and well drained-a soil not necessarily fertile for other crops
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uses of terrior with soil
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have traditionally worn clothing in part in response to distinctive agricultural practices and climatic conditions
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people living in folk cultures
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clothing preferences generally reflect occupations rather than particular enviornments
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popular culture clothing
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influences popualr culture clothing
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wealth
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important symbol of the diffusion of western popular culture is
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jeans
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when was the generation where kids wore jeans?
Definition
pants
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most popular lesiure activity in much of the world
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media
Term
msot popular way knowledge is transmitted in popular culture
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media
Term
when did the US see the first TV?
Definition
1930s
Term
what increased the number of televisions?
Definition
the end of WW2
Term
between 1995 and 2011 there were how many users ont he internet?
Definition
239 million
Term
1/3 of the world used what in 2008?
Definition
facebook
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environment may be modified for a leisure activity or to promote for the sale of a product
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popular cultrue landscape
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msot popular leisure activity for modifying land is
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golf
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gold originated in
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scotland
Term
1. loss of traditional values
2. imposition of popular culture through diffusion of media
Definition
challenges to folk culture
Term
-Uniformity: Fast food
-Uniformity: Gas, Food, and Marketplace
-Diffusion int he global Marketplace
-Local cultures and globalization
Definition
challeneges to popular culture
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a system of communication through speech
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language
Term
one that is use by the government for conducting buisness and publishing documents
Definition
official language
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a system of written communication
Definition
literary tradition
Term
collection of languages related
Definition
language family
Term
collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that exsisted thousands of years ago
Definition
language branch
Term
collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary
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language group
Term
english is part of the germanic branch because Germanic tribes invaded what country?
Definition
England
Term
official language of India is
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Hindi
Term
what language did the romance language evolve from?
Definition
Latin
Term
how did the latin language die?
Definition
When rome collapsed
Term
what is the predominant language branch in russia and central europe?
Definition
Broto-Slavic
Term
first indi-Europe speakers may have been
Definition
Kurgan
Term
lived near the border of russia and kazakhstan and were nomadic
Definition
Kurgans
Term
indo-european language spread through the
Definition
kurgan migration
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argued that the first Indo-European speakers lived 2,000 years before the kurgans in part of present-day turkey
Definition
cain renfrew
Term
celts spoke the language called
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celtic
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came from present-day norway, landed ont he northeast coast of england and raided several settlements
Definition
vikings
Term
- from rpesten day nomandy in france
- conquered england in 1066
- established french as the official language for the next 300 years
Definition
Normans
Term
a regional variation of a language distinguished by distinctive vocabulary, spealling and pronunciation
Definition
dialect
Term
geopraphers are interested in differences in dialects because
Definition
they reflect distinctive features of the enviornments in which groups live
Term
every word that is not used nationally has some geographic extent within the country and therefore has boundries
Definition
isogloss
Term
why is the english language in the united states so different now from that in England?
Definition
isolation
Term
vocabulary is different in part because settlers in america encounted unfamiliar things such as canyons and moose
Definition
how vocabulary in america is different from vocabulary in england
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american spelling divered from the british standard because of a strong national feeling in the united states for an independent identity
Definition
how spelling in america is different from spelling in england
Term
from the time of their arrival in north america, colonists began to pronounce words diffently from the british
Definition
how pronunciation in america is different from spelling in england
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creator of the first comprehensive american dictionary and grammar books
Definition
noah webster
Term
these colonies were established and inhabited almost entirely by settlers from england
Definition
northern united states
Term
about half came from southeast england although they represented a diversity of social-class backgrounds like:
- deported prisoners
- indentured servants
- political and religious refugees
Definition
south united states
Term
- quakers
-scotish irish
Definition
midlands of the united states
Term
a language of international communication such as english
Definition
lingua franca
Term
-swahili east africa
- hindi in south asia
- indonesian is touh asia
- russian formor soviet union
Definition
other contemporary lingua Franca languages
Term
which mixes a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca with another language
Definition
pidgin language
Term
franca was distributed through
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migration and conquest
Term
is now distributed through ideas
Definition
lingua franca
Term
- australia
- united kingdom
- united states
Definition
places where english is official
Term
english exists in so many coutnries because
Definition
england migrated to all of the palces they built colonies they conquered
Term
since the internet was created in the 1990s it was help the world by
Definition
spreading english
Term
ctching up to english and may become the leading language of online users by 2020
Definition
china
Term
a language that is unrelated to any other and therefore not attached to any language family
Definition
isolated language
Term
language no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the world
Definition
extinct languages
Term
how many languages are extinct?
Definition
113
Term
a language of the andamanese family became extinct in 2010 with the death of its last known speaker
Definition
Aka-Bo
Term
is on the edge of becoming a extinct language but thanks to religious it hasnt yet
Definition
hebrew
Term
considers 500 languages in danger of becoming extinct, but some are being preserved
Definition
ethologu
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was established for the preservation of endangered languages
Definition
European Union has established the European Bureau for Lesser used Languages
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an official language of the republic of Ireland
Definition
Irish Gaelic
Term
most speakers live in remote highlands and islands of northern scotland
Definition
scottish gaelic
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in wales teaching welsh in school is compulsory
Definition
welsh
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became extinct in 1777 with the death of the language's last known native speaker
Definition
cornish
Term
concentraded in France's Brittany regions, bretan differs from the other celtic languages in that is has more French words
Definition
Breton
Term
one of the two official languages in canada
Definition
French
Term
why has spanish become an important language in the united states?
Definition
because of large-scale immigration from latin america
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is defined as a language that results from the mixing of the colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated
Definition
creole or crealized language
Term
derives from a word in several romance languages for a slave who is born int he master's house
Definition
creole
Term
froms when the colonized group adopts the language of the dominant group but makes some changes' such as simplifying the grammar and adding words from their former language
Definition
cerolized language
Term
widespread french
Definition
franglais
Term
widespread spanish
Definition
spanglish
Term
widespread german
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denglish
Term
material culture
Definition
-folk culture
-popular culture
Term
values and belifes
Definition
language
religion
ethnicity
Term
political institutions
Definition
electoral patterns
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repetitive act of an individual
Definition
habit
Term
repetitive act of a group
Definition
social custom
Term
entire collection of group's customs
Definition
material culture
Term
- diffusion and spatial distribution of folk and popular culture
- their relation to physical environment
Definition
things geograhpers study
Term
have anonymous origins and authorship
Definition
folk customs
Term
used to be practiced by homogenous groups in rural areas
Definition
folk culture
Term
diffused through migration
Definition
folk culture
Term
involved fairy tales, probverbs, folk music, song and dance
Definition
folk culture
Term
preserved in every old-world culture as a symbol of national uniqueness
Definition
folklore
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usually convey info about daily activities or life-cycle events, or combine those with description of some prominent landscape features
Definition
folk songs
Term
has roots in folk culture, including celtic music and gospel music
Definition
country music
Term
has roots in spirituals and other forms with coded messages of subversion against slaveholders
Definition
African American music
Term
written by specific individuals for the purpose of being sold to a large number of people
Definition
popular culture music
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a product of more developed countries
Definition
popular culture music
Term
more likley to vary from place to place at a given time
Definition
folk culture
Term
is mroe likely to vary from time to time in a given place
Definition
popular culture
Term
good example of popular culture in sports
Definition
modern spectators
Term
- originated as isolated folk customs
- diffused through migration
- organized sports display characteristics or popular culture
Definition
how sports retain their folk culture roots
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- originated in 11th century england
- banned in the end of the 12th century
- legalized again in 1603
- 1863: english football association founded
- transformed into a global populare culture since the late 1800s
Definition
soccer
Term
founded in paris in 1904
HQ in Zurish, Switzerland
currently has 208 members
Definition
FIFA; Federation international Football Association
Term
in LDC traditonal cothing reflects
Definition
enviornmental factors
Term
in MDC clothing habits reflect
Definition
occupations rather than particular environments
Term
- symbol of diffusion of popular western culture
- used to be one of the most desired items in communist countries
Definition
jeans
Term
- presents American Beliefs and cultural norms such as upward mobility, freedom for women, glorification of youth, and stylized violence
Definition
American TV
Term
they dominate the TV industry in LDC
Definition
US
UK
Japan
Term
presents american beliefs and cultural norms, such as upward mobility, freedom for women, glorification of youth, and stylized violence
Definition
TV
Term
roel of AP and Reuters
Definition
Diffusion of world news
Term
an assult on government control over information
Definition
Satellite dishes
Term
Rising stars of international TV News industry
Definition
Al Jazeera
Xinhua
Term
- follows ealier TV pattern but diffuses faster
- world wide adoption within just one decade
- is the american creature
Definition
Internet
Term
developments go back to 1958
Definition
internet
Term
DARPA
Definition
defense advanced research projects agency
Term
administered the semi-automatic ground environment program to network country-wide radar systems togeather
Definition
DARPA
Term
Lawrebce G. Roberts
Leonard Kleinrock
Robert Kahn
VInton Cerf
Definition
associated with Internet's Birth
Term
what year was the opening of the national network to commercial interests
Definition
1985
Term
what year was the Global Internet as we know it today?
Definition
1995
Term
how many people are connected to internet?
Definition
2095 million people
Term
can produce uniform landscapes
Definition
promoting product familiarity
Term
- convenience
- immediate recognition by customers
- low-cost socializing
Definition
fast food franchises
Term
predated british colonization
Definition
french colonization
Term
one of the 2 official language
Definition
french
Term
native french speakers accoount for how much of the population of canada?
Definition
22%
Term
how much french peopel make of population in Quebec?
Definition
83%
Term
how many peopel speak a language other than english in America?
Definition
50 million
Term
which ethnicity is the largest minority in america?
Definition
hispanics
Term
how many peopel speak spanish int he united states?
Definition
34 million
Term
are all countries multi-lingual?
Definition
yes
Term
how many languages spoken in india?
Definition
438
Term
-Felmish
-French
-German
Definition
3 official languages in Belgium
Term
this language is classed as a germanic language
Definition
English
Term
was influenced by Celtic and Romance
Definition
English
Term
-celts
-angles and saxons
- vikings
-normans
Definition
cultures that reflects on the hsitory of England
Term
is the initial vehicle of spreading english throughout the world
Definition
British Colonialism
Term
- vocabulary
- spelling
- pronunciation
Definition
difference between america and europe
Term
what is the major language in Sino-Tibetan
Definition
Manderin Chinese
Term
what is the major language spoken in indonesia and Madagascar
Definition
Austronesian
Term
main language spoken in vietnamese and Khmer
Definition
austro-asiatic
Term
how many people speak arabic?
Definition
280 Million people
Term
arabic is the official language of how many countries?
Definition
22
Term
is the liturgical language of islam
Definition
arabic
Term
hs many different geographically distributed spoken varities some of which are mutually unintelligible
Definition
arabic
Term
example of successful revival of an extinct language
Definition
hebrew
Term
became the first native speaker of modern hebrew
Definition
ben-Zion ben-Yehuda
Term
includes turkic language
Definition
Altaic
Term
official languages of Hungary, Finland, and Estonia
Definition
Uralic
Term
largest language families of sub-saharan Africa
Definition
Niger-Congo
Term
how many languages are extinct?
Definition
500
Term
largest extinct language
Definition
america indian languages
Term
-welsh
- irish
- scottish
Definition
celtic languages
Term
official language of India
Definition
Hindi
Term
official language of pakistan
Definition
urdu
Term
-greek
-albanian
-armenian
Definition
individual indo-european languages not part of branches
Term
-russian
-ukrainian
-belarusian
-polish
-czech
-slovak
-serbo-croatian
-slovene
-bulgarian
Definition
major slavic languages
Term
-german
-dutch
-swedish
-danish
-norwegian
-english
Definition
major German languages
Term
-Italian
-french
-spanish
-portuguese
-Romanian
Definition
Romance languages
Term
contain individual languages
Definition
language groups
Term
a unit of horizontal classification
Definition
dialect
Term
a unit of verticle classification
Definition
slang
Term
subdivied into branches
Definition
language families
Term
largest unit of linguistic classification
Definition
Language Family
Term
is a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the protolanguage of that family
Definition
language family
Term
an indispensible element of culture
Definition
language
Term
how many live languages are there?
Definition
6909
Term
appeals to one ethnic group
Definition
ethnic
Term
global appeals to all people world wide
Definition
universalizing
Term
universalizing though originally nurtured within judaism
Definition
Christianity
Term
-universalizing
-siddhartha gautama
Definition
buddhism
Term
-universalizing
-muhammad
Definition
islam
Term
-largest ethnic religion
-no founder
-dominant in india and nepal
Definition
Hinduism
Term
-christianity
-islam
-buddhism
Definition
largest universalizing religions
Term
-eastern orthodox
-roman catholic
-roman catholic
-protestant
Definition
branches of christianity
Term
sunni
shiite
Definition
branches of islam
Term
theravada
mahayana
Definition
branches of buddhism
Term
-2 billion followers
-roman cathlicism
Definition
christianity
Term
1.3 billion followers
-mainly in the middle east
Definition
islam
Term
- 400 million followers
- in china, japan, korea, and South east asia
Definition
Buddhism
Term
- hinduism
-confucianism
-daoism
-shintoism
-judaism
Definition
Ethnic Religions
Term
number one religion in united states
Definition
roman catholic
Term
- muhammad's followers and army
Definition
how islam spread around
Term
missionaries and military conquest
Definition
how religions get spread around
Term
religions have holy places associated with the founder's life
Definition
universalizing religions
Term
- no single architectural style since schism/split
Definition
christian churches
Term
-mosque
-makkah
-madinah
-jerusalem
Definition
muslim holy places
Term
was born as a reaction to anti-semitism
Definition
zionism
Term
when was the talk between israel and palestinian arbas first began?
Definition
2010
Term
attempts to be global
Definition
universalizing
Term
appeals primarily to one group of peopl living in one place
Definition
ethnic religion
Term
-christianity
-islam
-buddhism
Definition
universalizing religions
Term
- 2 billion people
-predominant religion in North America, south america, europe, and australia
- roman catholicism is the dominant christian branch
Definition
christianity
Term
-1.3 billion people
- predominant religion of the middle east
- sunni branch comprises 83 percent of muslims and is the largest branch in most muslim countries
Definition
Islam
Term
-400 million people
-mainly in china and south east asia
- mahayanists account for about 56 percent of buddhists primarily in china, japen, and korea
Definition
Buddhism
Term
- 80% of population is in India and Nepal
- 3% are in India other in Nepal
Definition
hinduism
Term
traditional ethnic religions
Definition
animism
Term
is a large fundamental division within a religion
Definition
branch
Term
a division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body
Definition
denomination
Term
relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
Definition
sect
Term
-was applied to the christian church in the second century
- headed by the pope who is the bishop of rome
Definition
Roman Catholicism branch
Term
are considered the successors to Jesus's twelve apostles
Definition
bishops
Term
was believed this person possesed a universal primacy or authority
Definition
pope
Term
colelction of 14 self governing churches derive from the faith and practices in the eastern part of the roman empire
Definition
eastern orthodox
Term
split of eastern church and rome was in
Definition
1054
Term
is regarded as beginning when martin luther posted 95 theses ont he door of the church at writtenberg on october 13,15,17
Definition
protestant reformation
Term
- means the way of the elders
- emphasizes buddha's life of wisdom
- self help
-saitary introspection
Definition
theravada
Term
-split from theravada about 2,000 years ago
- emphazes buddha's life of teachings of compassion and helping others
Definition
Mahayana
Term
has no gods so individuals selects suitable rituals
Definition
hinduism
Term
worships the god vishnu
Definition
vaishnavism
Term
how many worship siva?
Definition
27%
Term
is a form of worship dedicated tot he female consorts of vishnu and siva
Definition
skatism
Term
means submission tot he will of god
Definition
skatism
Term
comprises 2/3 of muslims and are the largest branch in the most muslim countries in middle east and asia
Definition
sunni
Term
comprises 90% of the population in Iran and a substantial share in neighboring countries
Definition
shitte
Term
god was revelated to sikhism's first guru, nahak, and was the one supreme being
Definition
sikhism
Term
-siyyid Ali Muhammad founded the faith in shiraz Iran in 1844
- Baha'is belife that one of the bab's disciples known as Baha'u'llah was the prophet and messenger for god
Definition
Baha'i
Term
gets spread by migration
Definition
religion
Term
when aryan tribes invaded india they brought their religion with them
Definition
origins of Hinduism
Term
-started with prophet muhammad
- muslims belive that muhammad recieved his first revelation from god, through the agel gabriel at age 40 while he was meditating
Definition
origins of islam
Term
-founded by Guru Nahak who traveled through south asia preaching hsi new faith
Definition
sikhism
Term
founded during the nineteenth century by Husayn Ali Nuri
Definition
Baha'i
Term
was first diffused from its hearth in southweast asia through migration
Definition
Christianity
Term
individuals who help to transmit a universalizing religion through relocation diffusion
Definition
missionaries
Term
carried the teachings of jesus along the roman empires's protected sea routes ad excellent road network to people in other locations
Definition
missionaries
Term
daily contact between believers in the towns and non-believers in the surrounding countryside
Definition
contagious diffusion
Term
acceptance of religion by the empire's key elite figure, the emperor
Definition
hierarchial diffusion
Term
the structure is an expression of religious principles an environment in the image of god
Definition
christian churches
Term
greek term meaning lord or master
Definition
church
Term
first holiest city for muslims because it is the birthplace of muhammad
Definition
Makkah
Term
a form of pilgrimage which is a journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes
Definition
haji
Term
-holiest object in islamic religion
- cubeliek structure encased in silk
Definition
Al-Ka'ba
Term
where muhammad recieved his first support and where he is burried
Definition
madinah
Term
a space for community assembly, not a sanctified place liek the christian church
Definition
mosques
Term
transforming ethnic groups into nations
Definition
nationalism
Term
is a group of people identifiable by a common background
Definition
ethnic group
Term
lends itself to more objective analysis
Definition
culture
Term
always reflects one's self identification
Definition
ethnicity
Term
means nto dependaent on the opinion of the group members
Definition
more objective analysis
Term
- individualism vs collectivism
- power distance
- uncertainty avoidance
- masculinity/femininity
Definition
4 dimensions of culture
Term
man who uncovered 4 dimensions of culture
Definition
geert hofstede
Term
to group people based ont heir ethnicity one should ask them
Definition
directly who they think they are
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is a social concept
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ethnicity
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is a set of physical features
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race
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does not seem to always rest on one and the same set of features or criteria
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Ethnicity
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is a group of people who share common hsitory, culture, and language, often possessing or seeking its own government
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Nation
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- based on a certain ethnicity
- an imagined community
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nation
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connects the concept of a nation with the concept of citizenship
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nation-state
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s strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms
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nationalism
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- separation of two ethnicities ont he basis of religion
- conflicts due to boundaries and ethnicities not matching
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ethnic cleansing
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