Chapter 4:
Pop culture video:
THoughts and ruminations
The articles all talk about folk and popular culture. We do not know how popular culture will chance in the future, so the article the rise and fall of popular culture talks about how in 1980 they published and encyclopedia about popular culture but now a days it would be wrong because pop culture changes so much. Globalization is bad for most folk cultures because when pop culture meets folk culture the folk culture tends to die out. Popular culture can be bad because it destroys hundreds of years of rich culture. The article 'The Pressure To Globalize' talks about how small folk cultures feel when they meet popular culture. Popular culture causes uniformity and turns peoples days into habits. Popular culture is spread through hierarchical diffusion.
Curve Correctives
20. C | Folk customs usually originate from daily life.
35. B | The size of a building does not help to distinguish different housing types.
36. D | Upper New York is an important source of folk culture in the US.
47. D | Asia does not produce much wine because they do not have a tradition of drinking.
56. E | Extinction of animals , demand for material, consumption of animal products, and environmental degradation help to grow popular culture and folk culture.
59. D | To avoid the direction of death and evil spirits some people sleep with their heads facing the east.
61. D | Vietnamese songs is an example of a folk custom used to diffuse information about
70. D | Wine drinking is popular culture that has not diffused to the south.
72. B | Western countries control most new media in less developed countries which scares the less developed countries.
35. B | The size of a building does not help to distinguish different housing types.
36. D | Upper New York is an important source of folk culture in the US.
47. D | Asia does not produce much wine because they do not have a tradition of drinking.
56. E | Extinction of animals , demand for material, consumption of animal products, and environmental degradation help to grow popular culture and folk culture.
59. D | To avoid the direction of death and evil spirits some people sleep with their heads facing the east.
61. D | Vietnamese songs is an example of a folk custom used to diffuse information about
70. D | Wine drinking is popular culture that has not diffused to the south.
72. B | Western countries control most new media in less developed countries which scares the less developed countries.
Part 3:
01. The main house type in eastern US is Neo-eclectic.
02. Companies seek to make a uniform landscape to promote customer recognition.
03. TV diffused into US and UK in the 1940s to 1950s.
04. Less developed countries fear the loss of popular culture because they loss their customs and individuality.
05. In South America the tv is controlled by public corporation. In Western Europe the tv is controlled by private ownership. In China the tv is controlled by direct operation .
06. A custom is with a group of people while a habit is solo.
07. China has a higher per capita consumption of pork, because India does not eat pork
08. France would have the highest wine production, and brazil would have the lowest.
09. Popular customs are invented, and folk customs have unknown dates and origins.
Part 4:
Question: What are some of the negative impacts of the diffusion of popular customs?
Their are many negative impacts of popular culture ranging from changing peoples perspectives to taking away a countries individuality to even destroying long standing social customs. When people come in contact with popular culture , most of the time, their perspective on the world changes. People usually become more materialistic and start caring more about themselves. When popular culture diffuses to a new country that country starts to look like a lot of other countries in appearance, clothes, food, and social customs. Popular culture can destroy social customs of the country that they diffuse into. People will adopt the popular customs and eventual social custom will just disappear. We can see this with native american's as they slowly move to popular culture. All in all, popular culture is bad for less developed countries.
01. The main house type in eastern US is Neo-eclectic.
02. Companies seek to make a uniform landscape to promote customer recognition.
03. TV diffused into US and UK in the 1940s to 1950s.
04. Less developed countries fear the loss of popular culture because they loss their customs and individuality.
05. In South America the tv is controlled by public corporation. In Western Europe the tv is controlled by private ownership. In China the tv is controlled by direct operation .
06. A custom is with a group of people while a habit is solo.
07. China has a higher per capita consumption of pork, because India does not eat pork
08. France would have the highest wine production, and brazil would have the lowest.
09. Popular customs are invented, and folk customs have unknown dates and origins.
Part 4:
Question: What are some of the negative impacts of the diffusion of popular customs?
Their are many negative impacts of popular culture ranging from changing peoples perspectives to taking away a countries individuality to even destroying long standing social customs. When people come in contact with popular culture , most of the time, their perspective on the world changes. People usually become more materialistic and start caring more about themselves. When popular culture diffuses to a new country that country starts to look like a lot of other countries in appearance, clothes, food, and social customs. Popular culture can destroy social customs of the country that they diffuse into. People will adopt the popular customs and eventual social custom will just disappear. We can see this with native american's as they slowly move to popular culture. All in all, popular culture is bad for less developed countries.