When one ethnic group becomes integrated into a larger culture it is called:
Assimilation
.
When one ethnic group becomes fully integrated into a larger culture it is called?
assimilation
. when one ethnic group becomes integrated into a larger culture.
What is Charter culture?
charter group. In plural societies, the
early arriving ethnic group
that created the first effective settlement and established the recognized cultural norms to which other, later groups are expected to conform.
What are examples of pop culture?
The common pop-culture categories are:
entertainment (such as film, music, television and video games)
, sports, news (as in people/places in the news), politics, fashion, technology, and slang.
What two factors explain the spatial differences between local and pop culture?
Two basic factors help explain the spatial differences between popular and folk cultures:
the process of origin and the pattern of diffusion
. – – – (118) Origin of Folk and Popular Cultures A social custom originates at a hearth, a center of innovation. Folk customs often have anonymous hearths.
How is the tradition of folk culture?
Conventionally, folk culture refers to the products and practices of relatively homogeneous and isolated small-scale social groups living in rural locations. Thus, folk culture is often associated with
tradition
, historical continuity, sense of place, and belonging.
What is popular culture as other?
Popular culture is the
set of practices, beliefs, and objects
that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social system. It includes media objects, entertainment and leisure, fashion and trends, and linguistic conventions, among other things.
What is stimulus diffusion?
Stimulus diffusion is a
type of cultural diffusion
, which is a process in which trends spread from place to place. Stimulus diffusion is when a trend spreads to a new location or cultural context and changes in its new location or context.
What is assimilation in human geography?
Assimilation:
the process through which people lose originally differentiating traits
, such as dress, speech particularities or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture (usually a dominant one). Often used to describe immigrant adaptation to new places.
What is an ethnic island?
ethnic islands. small, usually
rural and ethnically homogeneous enclaves situated
within a larger and more diverse cultural context.
What are 5 examples of culture?
- Norms. Norms are informal, unwritten rules that govern social behaviors.
- Languages.
- Festivals.
- Rituals & Ceremony.
- Holidays.
- Pastimes.
- Food.
- Architecture.
What are the 3 main themes of popular culture?
Three themes of popular culture are that
individual voices are valid, nothing is private
, and celebrity status is no longer afforded to only the most beautiful.
How can a particular culture become popular?
Films, broadcast radio and television
all had a profound influence on culture. So urbanization, industrialization, the mass media and the continuous growth in technology since the late 1700s, have all been significant factors in the formation of popular culture. These continue to be factors shaping pop culture today.
What is the best example of a cultural landscape?
Examples of cultural landscapes include
designed landscapes
(e.g., formal gardens and parks, such as Golden Gate Park), rural or vernacular landscapes (e.g., sheep ranches, dairy ranches), ethnographic landscapes (e.g., Mt.
What are the common elements of spatial distribution?
the arrangement of items on the earth’s surface (analyzed by the elements common to all spatial distributions:
density, dispersion, and pattern
.)
What is the most influential factor in folk culture?
Why is folk culture clustered?
Influence of the physical environment
. Folk cultures often (though not always) incorporate elements of the local environment. Food preferences are one example: the local climate presents a major influence on what can and cannot be grown.
