1. Chapter 4: Culture
By Jason B.

2. What are the Different Types of Culture?
Folk: small, incorporates a homogenous population, is typically rural, and cohesive in cultural traits
Popular: large, incorporates heterogeneous populations, is typically urban, and has quickly changing cultural traits
Local: group of people in a particular place, who see themselves as a community, who share experiences, customs, and traits, and work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and distinguish themselves from others

3. Material vs. Non Material Culture
Material: group of people includes the things they construct, such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance, and foods
Non-Material: includes the beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people

4. How are Local Cultures Sustained?
Assimilation: people lose differentiating traits, such as dress, speech mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society
Customs: practice that a group of people routinely follow
Cultural Appropriation: process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit
Authenticity: the accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex culture

5. How is Popular Culture Diffused?
Distance Decay: the effects of distance on interaction, generally the greater distance the less interaction
Time-Space Compression: the social and psychological effects of living in world in which time-space convergence has rapidly reached a high level of intensity
explains how innovations diffuse and how interlinked two places are through transportation and communication
Popular culture diffuses hierarchically in the context of time-space compression
All aspects of popular culture have a hearth

6. DISTANCE DECAY MODEL

7. How can Local and Popular cultures be seen in the Cultural Landscape?
Cultural Landscape: the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape
Placelessness: loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next
Glocalization: the process by which people place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes

8. Housing Regions
New England: wood-frame construction, fire place in center of the home, style that dates back from colonial times
Mid-Atlantic: fireplace not in the center of the house, porch, and second floor
Southern Tidewater: one story, characteristic porch, built on raised platform, built on raised stone foundations

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