Pretest 3 Flashcards

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In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of large and

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Heterogeneous groups

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2
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Folk cultures are spread primarily by

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Relocation diffusion

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3
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In recent decades, popular customs have most frequently originated in

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More developed countries

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4
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Based on what you have read about globalization, you could surmise that the main effect of modern communications on social customs has been to

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Increase the similarity of social customs in different locations

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5
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When we analyze the patterns of popular culture in our surroundings, we can surmise that

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Nodes of innovation are central to the process of hierarchical diffusion

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6
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An example of a folk custom used to diffuse information about agriculture is

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Vietnamese songs

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7
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The spatial distribution of soccer during the twentieth century is an example of

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Popular culture

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8
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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom is a

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Taboo

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9
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The geographer Vidal de la Blache regarded food supply as

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Less subject modification than clothing and weapons

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10
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The most important house style in the United States since the 1960’s is known as

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Neo-eclectic

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11
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The trend of globalization has threatened

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Popular culture and folk culture relatively equally

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12
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Marriage dowries in India reflect

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That some families value male children more

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13
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People maintain their folk culture despite familiarity with popular culture primarily because of

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The high cost of popular customs

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14
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The main difference between languages in the same family, branch, or group is how

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They correspond to the diffusion of free markets across much of the world

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15
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A lingua Franca is

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A language understood by people who have different native languages

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16
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The two largest language families in the world are

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Sino-Tibetan & Indo-European

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17
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The first speakers of the language that exiled into English were tribes that lived in present day

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Denmark and Germany

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18
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Which of the following is not a Romance language

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Bulgarian

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19
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The two most important languages in South America are

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Portuguese and Spanish

20
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Colin renfrews research constitutes much of the _____ hypothesis

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sedentary farmer

21
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A literary tradition is

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The written form of a language

22
Q

An isogloss is

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A boundary between language regions

23
Q

Marija gimbutas has contributed to the ______ hypothesis

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Nomadic warrior

24
Q

A creolized language is

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A mix of indigenous and colonial languages

25
Q

A pidgin language

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Has no native speakers

26
Q

The language spoken by the greatest number of native speakers in the world is

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Mandarin

27
Q

The large number of individual languages documented in Africa has resulted primarily from

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Thousands of years of isolation between cultural groups

28
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In the 1700’s, 1800’s and afterward, English diffusion has been strongly related to colonialism and imperialism in many parts of the world because

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Conquered people’s wishing to participate in the new government and the increasingly global economy felt pressured to learn English

29
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With respect to the relationship between culture, religion, and the physical environment,

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Religious ideas may be responsible for some of the changes people make in the physical environment

30
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Religion is a good example of the tension between globalization and local diversity because

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Religion represents core cultural values and beliefs that may conflict with others

31
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The belief in the existence of only one God is

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Monotheism

32
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Beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are

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Cosmogony

33
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The worlds largest ethnic religion is

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Hinduism

34
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Which characteristic distinguishes religion in Latin America from North America

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Having a Roman Catholic majority

35
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A relatively small group that has broken away from an established church is a

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Sect

36
Q

Which is a branch of Christianity

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Eastern Orthodox

37
Q

The dominant branch of Islam is

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Sunni

38
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The dominant branch of Islam in Iran is

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Shiite

39
Q

Jerusalems geography represents a particularly difficult religious conflict to resolve because

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Sacred sites to Jews and Muslims are literally built on top of one another

40
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The most populous ethnic group in the United States is

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Latinos/Hispanics

41
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The second most populous ethnic group in the United States is

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African Americans

42
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The largest Hispanic/Latino groups In the United States are from which two countries

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Puerto Rico and Mexico

43
Q

Los Angeles has what kind of ethnic distribution

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Clustered

44
Q

Which is the most dramatic change in the geographic distribution of African Americans in the United States

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Relocation to northern cities

45
Q

Which pair of concepts or entities from South Africa and the United States is the best match

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Apartheid-“Jim Crow” laws

46
Q

A nationality is

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A group of people tied to a place through legal status and tradition

47
Q

In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is more likely to vary

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From time to time at a given place