1. What are Local and Popular Cultures?
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What are Local and Popular Cultures?

2. Culture A group of: that are practiced by a people Belief Systems
Norms
Values
that are practiced by a people

3. Components of Culture Culture trait Culture complex
A single attribute of a culture
Example – money
Culture complex
combo of culture traits

4. Components of Culture Culture system: Geographic regions:
Culture complexes grouped together because they have culture traits in common
Geographic regions:
Term preferred by many geographers instead of culture region
Culture realm:
Most highly generalized regionalization of culture and geography

5. Local Culture A group of people in a particular place
who see themselves as a collective or a community
who share experiences, customs, and traits
who work to preserve those traits and customs
(in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others.)

6. Popular Culture A wide-ranging group of heterogeneous people
who stretch across identities and across the world
who embrace cultural traits such as music, dance, clothing, and food preference that change frequently and are ubiquitous on the cultural landscape.

7. What are some Local and Popular Cultures?
“Fringe” religious groups (Hutterites, Amish, or Scientologists)
Culture of Jax. Beaches
Alternative Sports (Skateboarding, Surfing, etc.)
Music Subcultures (Genres of hip-hop, punk, and country)
Gaming (Video gaming)
Sports (soccer, football, baseball etc.)
Clubs/Bars
Gambling
Popular Music
Popular religions

8. How do cultural traits from local cultures become part of popular culture? Madonna wearing a red string Kabbalah bracelet.

9. Material and Nonmaterial Culture
The things a group of people construct, such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance, and food.
Nonmaterial Culture
The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.
What are some examples of material culture?
What are some examples of nonmaterial culture?

10. Is this statue of the Buddha part of material or nonmaterial culture?
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Is this statue of the Buddha part of material or nonmaterial culture?

11. Relationships
Material culture can have nonmaterial meanings attached and visa versa

12. “Knowers”
People who have experienced or have an understanding of a culture
How do you become a knower of a culture?
Sometimes by travelling or searching out cultures but typically through diffusion

13. How do cultural traits diffuse?
Hearth
The point of origin of a cultural trait
Contagious diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion

14. Employing the concept of hierarchical diffusion, describe how you first became a “knower” of your favorite kind of music – where is its hearth, and how did it reach you?