KBAT

Question 1

Compare and contrast aspects of folk and popular culture
origins-
methods of diffusion-
current distribution-

Answer 1

Origin
Folk- Unknown hearth Pop- Product of developed countries. Traceable to certain person place or time period

Diffusion
Folk- Travels from one location to another more slowly and on a smaller scale Pop- More widespread and rapidly growing

Distribution- Folk- based on local and cultural factors Pop- Distributed across the world because physical factors don’t affect it

Question 2

Provide specific examples of folk culture and folk regions

Answer 2

Housing- Materials from the environment.
Ex Buildings in Mali are made from mud and wood
Sports- In Canadian Provinces and New England Candle Pin bowling is popular

Question 3

Provide specific examples of specific popular cultural traits and discuss their diffusion

Answer 3

Popular Music spread through contagious diffusion. In the 1949s radio stations started playing popular music and people all over the world were exposed to it due to soldiers having radios wherever they were stationed

Question 4

Discuss ways in which communities technologies differ in terms of their effects on culture diffusion and distribution

Answer 4

Tech increases access of pop culture to people in folk cultures and increases access to folk culture for people in pop culture.

Tech rapidly diffuses things like sports

Question 5

Explain how language families branches and groups are classified and related.

Answer 5

Dialects are forms of languages in a certain region. Dialects are a part of languages. Languages are systems of communication used by a certain region or group of people. Languages are apart of language groups. Language groups are collections of languages that share similar vocabularies. Language groups make up the language branch. These are collections of languages that share a common origin. These are all apart of the bigger language family which is the largest group of related languages which can all be traced back to a common hearth

Ex Indo European

Question 6

Map the distribution of major language families world wide

Answer 6

Indo-European } Europe South America North Latin America

Sino-Tibetan- China and southeast Asia

Question 7

show the division of Europe into the following language groups and give specific examples
from each: Germanic, Slavic, and Romance

Answer 7

Germanic - High and Low germanic

Slavic - East West and South Slavic

Romance - Spanish Portuguese French Italian

Question 8

describe the following characteristics of English: its origin and historical development, its
worldwide diffusion, its spatial variation, its cultural and economic roles

Answer 8

First colonies were built in North American and after England defeated France, english became the official language (relocation diffusion)

Question 9

explain the significance of official languages, national languages, and lingua francas

Answer 9

official and national languages are languages recognized by the government for public use and lingua francas are languages that are accepted for trade and business

in order to travel and be successful in other countries official and national languages as well as lingua franca’s are important to be aware of

Question 10

describe how languages become extinct and efforts used to preserve them.

Answer 10

languages go extinct when no living person speaks or reads the language anymore and people try to make endangered languages official languages and teach them in schools to try to preserve them. Languages go extinct when people speak a more globalized language instead of their native language (ex spanish speakers teaching their kids english not spanish)

Question 11

discuss the regional and local variety in language using the following terms:
slang, isogloss, accent, vocabulary, spelling, syntax, pronunciation

Answer 11

EXAMPLES
isoloss- pop coke soda
accent - southern drawl valley girl 
vocabulary- like literally 
spelling - color va colour 
pronunciation- root vs rowte

Question 12

distinguish between languages and dialects.

Answer 12

dialects are a part of languge

mandarin is a dialect of chinese

Question 13

identify the following characteristics of all major religions: point of origin, method of
diffusion, current distribution, and landscape expression.

Answer 13

Christianity - Israel-Contagious (followers of Jesus travelled in small groups to spread Christianity)

Islam - Mecca- Contagious (Muslim traders brought religion with them into Indonesia)

Buddhism - Northern India and Nepal Hierarchical (Emperor Ashoka converted to Buddhism and spread the ideas through
empire)

Hinduism - India Relocation (Migration of
Hindus from India)

Judaism- Israel/Lebanon Relocation (Forced migration into South and East Europe by
Roman Empire)

Question 14

discuss the major branches, their origins, and their current distributions for the following
religions: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.

Answer 14

Christianity- Israel- North America South America Europe and Australia

Islam - Mecca - Middle East

Buddhism - Northern India and Nepal East Asia and Southeast Asia

Question 15

Ethnic vs Universalizing

Answer 15

Universalizing
diffused from the hearth through expansion and relocation diffusion.
Examples: Christianity, Islam,
Buddhism, Sikhism

Ethnic
Restricted to relocation diffusion.
Examples: Hinduism, Judaism
Shintoism, traditional religions

Question 16

describe ways in which the environment influences religion and ways in which religions
affect the natural environment.

Answer 16

Some religions like hinduism for example belief nature is scared. They turn natural things into to temples and find things such as water to be holy