Unit 3: Cultural Patterns FOLK CULTURE AND POP CULTURE: PEACE & UNDERSTANDING OR INEVITABLE CONFLICT?

Let’s Talk About Paris…. What happened? Who claimed responsibility? How has France reacted? How have other Western nations reacted? How does this affect the United States?

Go back and think about your personal responses to the debate on whether the U.S. should accept Syrian refugees. Have the events in Paris changed your opinion? Why or why not? What do you think should be done about the refugee crisis?

Opening: Pandyas and Chispas Each of the two groups are students from one of two cultures (1. Pandyas, 2. Chispas). Group 3 is observing and recording notes. You are meeting at a conference for international students in AP Human Geography and are getting to know one another. Treat this as if it were real and that you are meeting each other for the first time (Pandyas or Chispas ) Ideas for conversation: What you did this weekend Your favorite artists, movies, books A favorite memory A story of an embarrassing moment in your life How awesome your AP HuGs class is

In your notebooks: Answer the following: Next: In your notes: Come up with as many words/concepts you can that can best describe culture : What rules do you think the Pandyas follow? What rules do you think the Chispas follow? Do you think either of these cultures are rude? Polite? Strange?

What is Culture? The combination of three things: ◦Customary Beliefs and Values ◦Material artifacts ◦Social Forms (Political institutions) ◦This chapter deals with material artifacts ◦Geographers are interested in two aspects of culture: ◦Where cultures are located in space ◦How cultures interact with the environment

Components of Culture Material Culture (v) – the physical objects produced by a culture in order to meet its material needs: food, clothing, shelter, arts, and recreation. Symbolic Culture (v): non- physical aspects of culture: religion, values, language

Rest of class today: Complete Unit 3: Key Issue 1+2 pp Due Next Class

Habits v. Customs Geographers study how culture influences behavior. ◦Habit (v) is a repetitive act performed by an individual. ◦One college student wears jeans with colorful patches. ◦Custom (v) is a repetitive act performed by a group. ◦All college students from the American South wear jeans with colorful patches. ◦Taboo (v) – a restriction on behavior imposed by social custom.

Folk and Popular Culture Two basic categories: folk and popular culture ◦Folk culture ◦Traditionally practiced by small, isolated, homogeneous groups in rural areas ◦Popular culture ◦Characterized by large, heterogeneous groups of people who share common habits despite differences in other personal characteristics

Folk Culture Stable and close knit Tradition controls Resistance to change Buildings erected without architect or blueprint using locally available building materials Isolation/lack of interaction

Origin of Folk Culture ◦Hearth (v): a place of origin. ◦Where something starts. ◦Anonymous hearths ◦Possible to have multiple hearths each originating independently ◦Anonymous sources ◦Unknown dates ◦Unidentified originators

Origin of Pop Culture ◦Product of developed countries ◦Typically North American or European ◦Origin often traceable to specific person or corporation in a particular place

Diffusion of Folk v. Pop ◦Folk Culture ◦Smaller scale and slower transmissions from one location to another primarily through relocation diffusion (migration)

Diffusion of Folk v. Pop ◦Popular Culture ◦Tends to be transmitted by way of hierarchical diffusion ◦Diffuses rapidly and extensively from hearths or nodes of innovation with help of modern communications

Distribution of Folk v. Pop ◦Folk Culture ◦Combination of local physical and cultural factors influence distinctive distributions. ◦Isolation from other cultures because of physical barriers— e.g., distance and mountain ranges ◦Religion

Distribution of Folk v. Pop ◦Popular Culture ◦Widely distributed across many countries with little regard for physical factors ◦Principal obstacle to access is lack of income to purchase the material