what are the different types of culture? folk: small, incorporates a homogenous population, is...
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What are the Different Types of Culture?
• Folk: small, incorporates a homogenous population, is typically rural, and cohesive in cultural traits
• Popular: large, incorporates heterogeneous populations, is typically urban, and has quickly changing cultural traits
• Local: group of people in a particular place, who see themselves as a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and distinguish themselves from others
Material vs. Non Material Culture• Material: group of
people includes the things they construct, such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance, and foods
• Non-Material: includes the beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people
How are Local Cultures Sustained?• Assimilation: people lose
differentiating traits, such as dress, speech mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society
• Customs: practice that a group of people routinely follow
• Cultural Appropriation: process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit
• Authenticity: the accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex culture
How is Popular Culture Diffused?• Distance Decay: the effects of
distance on interaction, generally the greater distance the less interaction
• Time-Space Compression: the social and psychological effects of living in world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity
– explains how innovations diffuse and how interlinked two places are through transportation and communication
• Popular culture diffuses hierarchically in the context of time-space compression
• All aspects of popular culture have a
hearth
DISTANCE DECAY MODEL
How can Local and Popular cultures be seen in the Cultural Landscape?
• Cultural Landscape: the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape
• Placelessness: loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next
• Glocalization: the process by which people place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes
Housing Regions• New England: wood-frame
construction, fire place in center of the home, style that dates back from colonial times
• Mid-Atlantic: fireplace not in the center of the house, porch, and second floor
• Southern Tidewater: one story, characteristic porch, built on raised platform, built on raised stone foundations