1. Folk and Popular Culture

2. Links we viewed:
Popular Culture diminishes Folk Culture:
Thriller changes Pop culture music venue:
First MTV video = Radio to tv:
Today trend: Video to internet:
Old Days Hucklebuck:

3. Carl Sauer
Studied how material expressions of culture show on landscape
Two major questions:
How does space, place and landscape shape culture?
How does culture shape, space, place and landscape? (ask when thinking food, sport, housing or traditions)

4. Terms
Habit: A repetitive act that an individual performs.            (ex: wearing a hat to class every day)
Custom: A repetitive act that an entire group performs. A custom characterizes a group.             (ex: Native American tribal ceremonies)
Culture refers to a group's entire collection of customs.
Mentifact: The ideas, beliefs and values of a culture.               (ex: religion)

5. Terms
Artifact: Something man made that has relevance to a particular culture                (ex: tools)
Sociofact: The way in which people organize their society and relate to one another.                  (ex: customs)
Taboo: The prohibition of the use or mention of something due to its nature.               (ex: food taboos- Muslims cannot eat pork, Hindus cannot eat cow)

6. Terms
   
Acculturation: adopting some or all of characteristics of another dominant culture (keep some of your original customs)
Assimilation: adopting most of the characteristics of a dominant culture allowing for the disappearance of your customs
Syncretism: fusing old and new parts of culture together
Ethnocentrism: believing one culture (usually one’s own) is superior and all other cultures must follow example

7. How does Popular Culture Change?
Change over decades/through time (diversity is in time) versus Folk Culture changes over space (diversity is seen from one place to another)
Madonna Pop: or or (A-Ha Take me on)
Words:
MTV Launch:
Word of the year:

8. Models Spread of Pop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL6e9c2baD8
Distance Decay- 
Typically, the farther away one group is from another, the less likely the two groups are to interact. Contact diminishes with increasing distance and eventually disappears.
Spread of Pop:

9. Popular Housing
MDCs used cut lumber , shingles, stucco, vinyl, and aluminum
blueprint and architect used
Styles did not vary from place to place
Wide Distribution
Small regional variations

10. Diffusion of Housing Types
Many housing types diffused due to the growing popularity of different housing.
For example, in the 1940s and 50s the minimal traditional house was popular to young families and veterans from WW2. 
Also, the neo-colonial house of the 1950s was brought over from Britain, which would be relocation diffusion.