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Name three of the six countries in which television technology originally developed.

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What is one of the major differences in the origin of a popular culture compared to a folk culture?

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In contrast to popular culture, folk culture is more likely to vary from time to time at a given place.

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The trend of globalization has threatened


A) popular culture and folk culture relatively equally.
B) the folk customs of only a few isolated communities.
C) the spread of the international banking system.
D) folk culture more than popular culture.
E) folk culture, but only in the largest cities on each continent.

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We can deduce from the examples of popular music, fashionable clothing, and electronic applications around us that the rapid diffusion of popular culture


A) discourages people in different places to adopt different customs.
B) depends on modern communication systems.
C) is an example of relocation diffusion.
D) conserves natural resources.
E) always occurs at the expense of folk culture.

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Diffusion of Internet service is following the earlier pattern of television, except that


A) the United States' share of world use is expanding.
B) diffusion is much faster.
C) diffusion is much slower.
D) the expansion of service is faster in Africa than Asia.
E) the initial use was in less developed countries.

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Which concept is the contemporary geographer likely to reject?


A) Local resources make some cultural choices more likely than others.
B) People in similar environments adopt different social customs.
C) People are influenced by their physical environment.
D) People in different environments adopt similar social customs.
E) The physical environment causes people to adopt social customs.

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The geographer Vidal de la Blache regarded food supply as


A) the weakest available example of a folk custom.
B) the folk custom least closely tied to a particular climate.
C) more subject to modification than weapons.
D) less subject to modification than clothing and weapons.
E) a limited resource that would not keep up with population growth.

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In which state would alcohol consumption be relatively low?


A) Kentucky
B) Nevada
C) New York
D) Utah
E) California

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Judging from the discussions of other clothing in this chapter, we could say that hoodies are an example of ________ adopted by a number of different groups segmented by age, class, ethnicity, and other factors. Hoodies are a versatile element of popular culture.


A) punk culture
B) material culture
C) folk culture
D) immaterial culture
E) youth culture

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In your community, what are two ways in which popular culture seems to be contributing to pollution? How does pollution from popular culture in your area differ from other types of pollution there? Explain how a geographical perspective helps you to analyze and understand these matters.

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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a


A) folk culture.
B) habit.
C) popular culture.
D) taboo.
E) tariff.

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Which of the following statements reflects the environmental impact of culture?


A) Folk culture never causes environmental impacts while popular culture does.
B) Solid waste is the least visible of wastes generated from culture.
C) Popular culture may cause a rapid increase in demand for certain natural resources.
D) Environments are not affected by the level of pollution generated by human activity.
E) Folk culture does not affect the environment but popular culture does.

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The highest concentration of golf courses within the United States is in the Sunbelt.

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Hip hop music demonstrates an interplay between globalization and local diversity because


A) it is a form of folk culture responsible for the globalization of modern music.
B) it is a part of popular culture which threatens to overwhelm local folk cultures.
C) artists may be widely popular yet still make local references in their song lyrics.
D) some lyrics can't be transmitted over the radio and television.
E) hip hop music is played in many Islamic countries.

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In what ways might gender (gender identities, roles, differences, and interactions) affect the distribution of customs associated with entertainment offerings in your neighborhood? Which seem to reinforce gender stereotypes and biases, and which seem to defy them? Which are more associated with folk culture, and which with popular culture?

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Folk cultures are spread primarily by


A) contagious diffusion.
B) hierarchical diffusion.
C) relocation diffusion.
D) stimulus diffusion.
E) epidemic diffusion.

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Culture can be defined as a repetitive act that a group performs until it becomes a characteristic of a group.

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Today, house types in the United States are distinguished by all but which of the following?


A) They can still be divided into three distinct regions.
B) They display few regional distinctions.
C) They are usually mass-produced.
D) Alternative styles have diffused throughout the country.
E) They demonstrate how popular customs vary more in time than in place.

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In recent decades, popular customs have most frequently originated in


A) more developed countries.
B) less developed countries.
C) formerly communist countries.
D) countries with large rural populations.
E) Latin America and Africa.

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