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Human Geography: Unit 3 Culture - (2024)

Test Review on Unit 3: Culture (Folk, popular, and diffusion)

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What is arguably the most worn clothing item in the world and is an example of Western popular culture?Jeans
As of 2010, what is the most important reflector and transmitter of culture around the world?TV
What percentage of cultural traits are borrowed from other cultures through diffusion?90%
What percentage of culture develops through spontaneous, local invention when something unique and new is created?10%
The spreading of ideas, languages, and customs from one culture to another iscultural diffusion
Amish customs, like most folk culture, diffuse chiefly throughrelocation diffusion
A folk sport found in Great BritainCricket
A folk sport found in ChinaMartial Arts
The diffusion of jeans is a good example primarily of thediffusion of popular culture
A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a folk culture.taboo
What is an important source area for U.S. folk house types?Middle Atlantic
The spatial distribution of soccer during the twentieth century is an example ofpopular culture
Popular music as we know it originated when?Around 1900
Popular customs most frequently originate inmore developed countries
The main effect of modern communications on social customs has been toincrease the similarity of social customs in different locations.
Popular customs are more likely than folk customs torapidly diffuse through modern communication systems.
The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish in the United States is an example of afolk culture
Folk cultures are spread primarily byrelocation diffusion
Folk songs are often distinguished from popular songs because theytell a story about daily activities
Folk customs usually originate fromanonymous hearths
In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical oflarge heterogeneous groups.
Popular culture is most likely to varyfrom time to time at a given place
Folk culture is most likely to varyfrom place to place.
A repetitive act performed by an individual is ahabit
The repetitive act of a group is acustom
The whole way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs isculture


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