Do Now: Mon. Dec. 6th

•Take out a blank sheet of paper, and respond to the following question:

•What is culture?•How would you describe your culture?

•How is culture expressed?

What is culture?

•Culture: the shared experience, traits, and activities of a group of people who have a common heritage.

• Rubenstein describes culture as:•what we care about•what we take care of

• Based on this, what is the cultural landscape?

Focus Questions

•What is folk culture most concerned with?

•What is pop culture most concerned with?

•What do they have in common?

•How are they different?

Trivia....1.She had a breakdown in 2008 that involved shaving

her head and stabbing a papparazzi car with an umbrella.

2.After playing the Joker, he died from a drug overdose.

3.He interrupted Taylor Swift at the MTV VA to protest her winning the best video award. He just released a new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

4.Insisting that she is a singer and has talent, this star of “The Hills” released a music single and successfully tried to perform it.

more trivia...•In the movie “A Mighty Wind,” this is the

name of the 3-man folk band that reunites to play a concert memorializing a fictional folk music icon.

•This sport is played on a court with 3 walls, and the players fling a goatskin ball at speeds up to 180 mph. It became popular in Florida.

•This vegetable is a favorite folk food, and is often buried in the ground to be fermented for a few weeks, then it is added to dishes with meats and potatoes, or becomes the crucial ingredient in kimchee.

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JhLuVu-Cho

Folk vs. Pop Culture

•For each of the following images, you will decide whether it is related to folk culture or popular culture or both (how?).

•Draw a t-chart on your page where you will take notes on these two main cultural categories.

•As you look at these images, write down any ideas you get for what these two types are all about

The Forbidden CityThe Forbidden CityBeijing, ChinaBeijing, China

20042004

Beijing, China2004

Folk Vs. Pop Characteristics

•As each student describes a characteristic and reads it, write it down on your t-chart under the appropriate type of culture.

Focus Questions

•What is folk culture most concerned with?

•What is pop culture most concerned with?

•What do they have in common?

•How are they different?

Material vs. Nonmaterial•Material culture- physical, visible

infrastructure- instruments, tools, buildings, the built environment.

•Nonmaterial culture- mentifacts, sociofacts, oral tradition, songs, stories and behavior.

•Customs- behaviors, arts, traditions and conventions

•Cultural Hearth - region from which culture originates (example: Hip Hop, Grunge, Jazz)

Cultural Determinism

• environment places no restrictions on humans whatsoever

• only restrictions are ones we place on ourselves

• ex. golf courses - what do they require?

• are there golf courses in desert? how?

• if this is possible - what isn’t?

• humans create everything from cultural perspective

I’ll tell you I’ll tell you what isn’t what isn’t possible...possible...

Agree or Disagree?Agree or Disagree?

How are folk and popular culture spread?

• spatial diffusion:

• the spread of any phenomenon (such as disease) across space

• 2 main types of cultural diffusion:

• Pop culture = expansion Folk culture = relocation

Expansion Diffusion• spreads outward from hearth

1.Stimulus Expansion Diffusion - innovative idea diffuses from hearth, original idea is changed by new adopters.

Expansion Diffusion2.Contagious

Expansion Diffusion - many people near the point of origin become adopters

Expansion Diffusion

3.Hierarchical Expansion Diffusion - innovation or concept spreads from a place or person of power to another in a pattern

Diffusion of Pop and Folk Cultures

•Refer to the following diagram:

Take 2 minutesand think of one

example of contagious

diffusion and one example of hierarchical

diffusion

Relocation Diffusion

•the spread of culture through migration

•example: language, food, traditions from the homeland brought to the U.S.

•`folk culture can fade with time

•acculturation - when people gradually adopt the customs and cultures of those around them (people become more American)

•assimilation - the gradual dying of old culture to be replaced with new culture

Focus Questions

•What is folk culture most concerned with?

•What is pop culture most concerned with?

•What do they have in common?

•How are they different?