Geography Exam 1 Part 3
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- Folk
- A small, cohesive, stable, isolated, nearly self-sufficient group that is homogeneous in custom. Unaltered folk culture does not exist.
- Popular culture
- A dynamic culture based on large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation and change.
- Social Values of Folk Culture 4 points
- Cultural/Moral values taught by family, strong interpersonal relationships, community comes first, very little class distinction.
- Social Values of Pop Culture 4 Points
- children are raised by outside institutions, many interactions with strangers, fleeting relationships, secular institutions teach society wide rules.
- Economic Values of Folk Culture 4 Points
- Subsitence economy (made to be sold), very little specialization, hand-crafted for longevitty, batering sytem.
- Economic Values of Pop Culture 4 Points
- mass-produced goods, time=money=goods, work and leisure division, specialized jobs.
- Flow of Information Values of Folk Culture 4 Points
- Oral tradition passed down, conservative, superstitious, contageous diffusion.
- Flow of Information Values of Pop Culture 2 Points
- Scientific, hierarchal flow.
- Place Values of Folk Culture 1 Points
- Deep knowledge of place/rootedness
- Place Values of Pop Culture 3 Points
- week connection/placelessness, homogeneous look, more mobile.
- Commodification
- The process of making things with the intention to sell
- Convergence hypothesis
- th concept that the heightened monility of people, things and ideas characteristic of the contemperary world will homogenize culture and reduce difference among places. (Deterritialization of Identity).
- Global Village 3 Points
- Community/shared ideas. 1960's by Marshal McLuhan. Greater sense of hunaity/compassion.
- Results of Globalization (3)
- Global village. People become "citizens of the world". Popular culture is amplifed-Americanization?
- Arun Appaduri's 5 Dimensions of Globalization:
- 1.Ethnoscapes 2.Mediascapes 3.Technoscapes 4.Finanscapes 5.Ideoscapes
- Ethnoscape (3)
- movement of people around the work today (diasorous, migration, tourists) Deterritorialization of culture/identity (assimilation takes longer) Supported by communication.
- Mediascapes (1)
- flow of information (news/pop cultures)
- Technoscapes (3)
- Green revolution, arms, medical.
- Finanscapes (1)
- Flow/transfer of capital (standard currency, remittances, currency trades, stock exchange)
- Ideoscapes (1)
- Political/economic philosophies are spread (Democracy?/human rights)