1. Get out stuff for notes folk vs. pop culture hw: read pgs
Get out stuff for notes folk vs. pop culture hw: read pgs , Extra credit due tomorrow
October 19, 2017

2. Discuss with your partner
Describe a time you visited a new area, like a different region of the US or a different country. What were the major cultural differences between there and here?
What are some customs of the US that foreigners would find weird?

3. Lost Boys

4. Important Terms Habit – repetitive act performed by an individual.
Custom – frequent repetition of an act until it becomes characteristic of a group of people..
Culture- a collection of a group’s customs, beliefs, and values
Material Culture – the physical objects produced by a culture in order to meet its material needs: food, clothing, shelter, arts, and recreation
Nonmaterial Culture- beliefs, practices, values of a people

5. Development of culture
Family influence
Religion
Rituals
Values/morals
Rules
History
Interaction with other groups
Environment
Physical Landscape
Natural resources
Climate
Impact of environment on food and clothing

6. Folk Culture Small, tight-knit, homogenous group
Usually an isolated, rural community
More common in LDCs
More variation from place to place
Traditional customs
Resistant to change
Buildings use local materials
Slow diffusion (relocation diffusion)
More connected to physical landscape
Religious

7. Folk cultures in the us

8. Pop culture Large, individualistic, heterogeneous group
Less variation from place to place
Constantly changing
Diffuses rapidly due to improved technology, communication, and transportation (hierarchical diffusion)
Originates in MDCs
Globalized and interconnected
Little influence from the environment
Secular

9. Provide examples of the ABC’s of Culture
Appearance (clothing, jewelry, adornments)
Beliefs (values, traditions, religion, death rituals, marriage, rites of passage)
Communication (language, gestures)
Dates (history, significant events/dates)
Entertainment (art, music, dance, drama, literature, sports)
Food (everyday food, celebration food, methods of production)
Government (Ethics, govt. type, law enforcement, rules of behavior)
Housing (Types of home, architecture, building materials)
Information (Child rearing, , education, technology)
Jobs (division of labor, trade)
Kind of Environment ( physical landscape, climate, proximity to water)
Leftovers (currency, flag, transportation)