Chapter 4, Key Issue #4

QUIZ

1.One of the most significant impacts of popular culture is to:

  1. Promote the diffusion of folk culture
  2. Create a more varied and less uniform landscape
  3. Spread through relocation diffusion
  4. Modify the physical environment
  5. All of the above

2.Features of the U.S. landscape, such as gas stations, supermarkets, and motels

  1. Promote the diffusion of folk culture
  2. Provide the diversity of the U.S. landscape
  3. Show high regional variation
  4. Promote a uniform landscape
  5. Reflect the preservation of folk culture

3.Many less developed countries fear the loss of folk cultures because

  1. Western perspectives may become more dominant
  2. Popular culture devalues women
  3. Western clothing styles are less comfortable
  4. They want to avoid political disputes
  5. They do not want to preserve traditional values

4.Diffusion of popular culture can adversely impact environment quality in two ways:

  1. Depletion of scarce resources and pollution
  2. Diversity of products and slow change
  3. Increased diversity and decreased demand
  4. Reducing demand for foreign products and promoting local crafts
  5. Using renewable resources and recycled designs

5.As they have more contact with popular culture, women in less developed countries are more likely to:

  1. Obtain food for the family
  2. Be subservient to men
  3. Bear more children
  4. Gain more opportunities outside the home
  5. Reduce the practice of prostitution

6.In the United States, the number of golf courses per person is highest in

  1. The northeast, where golf originated
  2. The north central states, where there is a long tradition of playing
  3. The southwest, where the climate allows play all year long
  4. The west, where golfers are clustered
  5. The south, where the climate is favorable

7.Cultural convergence is the:

  1. merging of the original culture hearths
  2. sharing of technologies, organizational structures and culture traits among separated societies
  3. process of acculturation
  4. abandonment of older culture hearths for modern centers
  5. the gradual elimination of all minor cultures by one dominant culture

8.All of the following statements concerning the globalization of Western culture aretrueEXCEPT?

  1. Many foreign cultures have adopted Western traits like clothing and religion.
  2. Some areas of the world have actively resisted Western culture traits.
  3. Backlash against Western culture has resulted in violence in some areas.
  4. Western culture is often spread through movies and other media.
  5. Western culture poses little or no serious threat to traditional folk cultures.

9.All of the following reflect a popular cultural landscape except

  1. interstate highways
  2. strip malls
  3. restaurant chains
  4. skyscrapers
  5. Adobe pueblos

10.Popular Culture is characterized by all of the following except

  1. quickly changing attributes
  2. homogeneous population
  3. urban population
  4. globalization
  5. uniform landscapes

11.All of the following are examples of folk cultural landscape in the United States EXCEPT?

  1. Amish communities in Pennsylvania.
  2. Pueblo communities in New Mexico.
  3. Log cabins in Appalachia.
  4. Teepees of the Plains Indians.
  5. The World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the White House.

12. The process of culture groups becoming different as a result of thousands of years of diffusion and isolation from each other is called:

  1. Diffusionism
  2. Independent Innovation
  3. Environmental Determinism
  4. Cultural Divergence
  5. Cultural Convergence

13.Examples of external threats to folk culture include all but which of the following?

  1. Facebook
  2. MTV
  3. CNN
  4. Twitter
  5. Religious holidays

14.In what ways does popular culture threaten environmental sustainability?

  1. Through recycling plans
  2. Because of increased demand for animal products
  3. Through curbside programs
  4. Because of decreased demand for golfing
  5. Because people are becoming vegetarians and vegans

15.Which of the following statements is NOT an accurate statement of globalization?

  1. Anti-globalization proponents argue that it tears the fabric weaving local communities together
  2. Globalization has encouraged a counter-process of localization
  3. The Internet is a driving force behind current patterns of globalization
  4. It is really nothing new, but rather a process that has been occurring over the last several centuries.
  5. It encourages economic development across the entire globe

EXTRA CREDIT: The study of the interaction between human cultures and natural ecosystems is called

  1. Semiotics
  2. Cognitive science
  3. Syncretism
  4. Sociobiology
  5. Cultural ecology