AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY UNIT 3 STUDY
GUIDE
What is folk culture? - answer a culture traditionally practiced by small, homogenous
groups living in isolated rural areas
What is popular culture? - answer a culture found in large, heterogenous societies that
share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
How does folk culture diffuse? - answer relocation diffusion; spreads slowly
How does popular culture diffuse? - answer hierarchical; spreads rapidly
What are characteristics of folk culture music? - answertells about daily activities; uses
traditional equipment; purpose to tell a story
What are characteristics of popular culture music? - answertells about love,
relationships; very catchy; uses highly technical skill, studio equipment; purpose to sell
to large audience
What are characteristics of food in popular culture? - answerlittle local variation due to
franchises and transportation; regional variation does exist
What are characteristics of housing in popular culture? - answeronly small regional
variations; more generally trends over time
What are characteristics of folk culture clothing? - answerstyle of clothing worn in
response to agricultural practices and climatic conditions
What are characteristics of popular culture clothing? - answerstyle of clothing generally
reflects occupation and income rather than environment
What are the three job levels and their focus? - answerprimary: agriculture
secondary: industry/factory (blue collar)
tertiary: anything that provides a service (white collar)
What clothing article is an important symbol of Western Culture? - answerjeans
What is central to rapid diffusion in popular culture? - answerimproved communications
How did sports originate? (i.e. folk vs pop.) - answerSports originated as isolated folk
customs and diffused via relocation diffusion
, T/F: Culture is learned, not biological. - answerTrue
What is material culture? - answerThe things a group of people construct, such as art,
houses, clothing, sports, dance, and food
What is nonmaterial culture? - answerThe beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a
group of people, such as religion, language, traditions, and customs
What is cultural landscape? - answerthe imprint of people on the land; how humans
use, alter, and manipulate the landscape to express their identity
What is a cultural realm? - answera set of cultural regions showing related cultural
complexes and landscapes, having assumed fundamental uniformity in its cultural
characteristics and showing significant differences from surrounding realms
What is the impact of popular culture on landscape? - answercreates homogenous,
"placeless" landscape (roads, highways, commercial structures, planned communities)
How are hearths of popular culture traits established? - answerbegins with an idea/good
and contagious diffusion
T/F: both individuals and companies can create/manufacture popular culture. -
answertrue
What three countries dominate worldwide media? - answerUS, UK, and Japan
What are globalized media networks unlikely to focus on? - answerthird world
perspectives or issues
In developing countries, news media is dominated by the... - answergovernment
What is the principle obstacle to accessing popular culture? - answerLack of access to
electronic media
The most important electronic media format to pop. culture is... - answerTV
What are four things some governments attempt to limit (internet content-wise)? -
answerpolitical content, social content (gambling, sex, etc.), conflict and security,
internet tools
What is neolocalism? - answerseeking out the regional culture and reinvigorating it in
response to the unceratinty of the modern world
What is commodification? - answerthe process by which a cultural practice becomes
something that can be bought or sold
GUIDE
What is folk culture? - answer a culture traditionally practiced by small, homogenous
groups living in isolated rural areas
What is popular culture? - answer a culture found in large, heterogenous societies that
share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
How does folk culture diffuse? - answer relocation diffusion; spreads slowly
How does popular culture diffuse? - answer hierarchical; spreads rapidly
What are characteristics of folk culture music? - answertells about daily activities; uses
traditional equipment; purpose to tell a story
What are characteristics of popular culture music? - answertells about love,
relationships; very catchy; uses highly technical skill, studio equipment; purpose to sell
to large audience
What are characteristics of food in popular culture? - answerlittle local variation due to
franchises and transportation; regional variation does exist
What are characteristics of housing in popular culture? - answeronly small regional
variations; more generally trends over time
What are characteristics of folk culture clothing? - answerstyle of clothing worn in
response to agricultural practices and climatic conditions
What are characteristics of popular culture clothing? - answerstyle of clothing generally
reflects occupation and income rather than environment
What are the three job levels and their focus? - answerprimary: agriculture
secondary: industry/factory (blue collar)
tertiary: anything that provides a service (white collar)
What clothing article is an important symbol of Western Culture? - answerjeans
What is central to rapid diffusion in popular culture? - answerimproved communications
How did sports originate? (i.e. folk vs pop.) - answerSports originated as isolated folk
customs and diffused via relocation diffusion
, T/F: Culture is learned, not biological. - answerTrue
What is material culture? - answerThe things a group of people construct, such as art,
houses, clothing, sports, dance, and food
What is nonmaterial culture? - answerThe beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a
group of people, such as religion, language, traditions, and customs
What is cultural landscape? - answerthe imprint of people on the land; how humans
use, alter, and manipulate the landscape to express their identity
What is a cultural realm? - answera set of cultural regions showing related cultural
complexes and landscapes, having assumed fundamental uniformity in its cultural
characteristics and showing significant differences from surrounding realms
What is the impact of popular culture on landscape? - answercreates homogenous,
"placeless" landscape (roads, highways, commercial structures, planned communities)
How are hearths of popular culture traits established? - answerbegins with an idea/good
and contagious diffusion
T/F: both individuals and companies can create/manufacture popular culture. -
answertrue
What three countries dominate worldwide media? - answerUS, UK, and Japan
What are globalized media networks unlikely to focus on? - answerthird world
perspectives or issues
In developing countries, news media is dominated by the... - answergovernment
What is the principle obstacle to accessing popular culture? - answerLack of access to
electronic media
The most important electronic media format to pop. culture is... - answerTV
What are four things some governments attempt to limit (internet content-wise)? -
answerpolitical content, social content (gambling, sex, etc.), conflict and security,
internet tools
What is neolocalism? - answerseeking out the regional culture and reinvigorating it in
response to the unceratinty of the modern world
What is commodification? - answerthe process by which a cultural practice becomes
something that can be bought or sold
