Chapter 4, Key Issue #4
QUIZ
1.One of the most significant impacts of popular culture is to:
- Promote the diffusion of folk culture
- Create a more varied and less uniform landscape
- Spread through relocation diffusion
- Modify the physical environment
- All of the above
2.Features of the U.S. landscape, such as gas stations, supermarkets, and motels
- Promote the diffusion of folk culture
- Provide the diversity of the U.S. landscape
- Show high regional variation
- Promote a uniform landscape
- Reflect the preservation of folk culture
3.Many less developed countries fear the loss of folk cultures because
- Western perspectives may become more dominant
- Popular culture devalues women
- Western clothing styles are less comfortable
- They want to avoid political disputes
- They do not want to preserve traditional values
4.Diffusion of popular culture can adversely impact environment quality in two ways:
- Depletion of scarce resources and pollution
- Diversity of products and slow change
- Increased diversity and decreased demand
- Reducing demand for foreign products and promoting local crafts
- Using renewable resources and recycled designs
5.As they have more contact with popular culture, women in less developed countries are more likely to:
- Obtain food for the family
- Be subservient to men
- Bear more children
- Gain more opportunities outside the home
- Reduce the practice of prostitution
6.In the United States, the number of golf courses per person is highest in
- The northeast, where golf originated
- The north central states, where there is a long tradition of playing
- The southwest, where the climate allows play all year long
- The west, where golfers are clustered
- The south, where the climate is favorable
7.Cultural convergence is the:
- merging of the original culture hearths
- sharing of technologies, organizational structures and culture traits among separated societies
- process of acculturation
- abandonment of older culture hearths for modern centers
- the gradual elimination of all minor cultures by one dominant culture
8.All of the following statements concerning the globalization of Western culture aretrueEXCEPT?
- Many foreign cultures have adopted Western traits like clothing and religion.
- Some areas of the world have actively resisted Western culture traits.
- Backlash against Western culture has resulted in violence in some areas.
- Western culture is often spread through movies and other media.
- Western culture poses little or no serious threat to traditional folk cultures.
9.All of the following reflect a popular cultural landscape except
- interstate highways
- strip malls
- restaurant chains
- skyscrapers
- Adobe pueblos
10.Popular Culture is characterized by all of the following except
- quickly changing attributes
- homogeneous population
- urban population
- globalization
- uniform landscapes
11.All of the following are examples of folk cultural landscape in the United States EXCEPT?
- Amish communities in Pennsylvania.
- Pueblo communities in New Mexico.
- Log cabins in Appalachia.
- Teepees of the Plains Indians.
- 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:
- Diffusionism
- Independent Innovation
- Environmental Determinism
- Cultural Divergence
- Cultural Convergence
13.Examples of external threats to folk culture include all but which of the following?
- MTV
- CNN
- Religious holidays
14.In what ways does popular culture threaten environmental sustainability?
- Through recycling plans
- Because of increased demand for animal products
- Through curbside programs
- Because of decreased demand for golfing
- Because people are becoming vegetarians and vegans
15.Which of the following statements is NOT an accurate statement of globalization?
- Anti-globalization proponents argue that it tears the fabric weaving local communities together
- Globalization has encouraged a counter-process of localization
- The Internet is a driving force behind current patterns of globalization
- It is really nothing new, but rather a process that has been occurring over the last several centuries.
- It encourages economic development across the entire globe
EXTRA CREDIT: The study of the interaction between human cultures and natural ecosystems is called
- Semiotics
- Cognitive science
- Syncretism
- Sociobiology
- Cultural ecology