1. Chapter 4: Key Issue 3
Why Is Popular Culture Widely Distributed?
1. In contrast to folk customs, popular customs diffuse ________________________ across the Earth’s
surface to locations with a wide variety of ________________________ ___________________. This
diffusion depends, however, upon a group of people having a sufficiently high level of ___________________
____________________________ in order to obtain the _________________________________
associated with the popular custom.
2. Complete the chart below to indicate the decade(s) during which each housing style was dominant and a fact
about that particular style of house.
style decade fact
minimal
tradition
ranch house
split-level
contemporary
style
shed style
3. In Western countries where popular culture predominates, clothing styles generally reflect
_________________________ rather than particular _______________________________.
4. Complete a bullet chart with 5 facts about clothing styles associated with popular culture.
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2. 5. Summarize four facts you believe to be most important to remember about jeans as an example of popular
culture.
6. Consumption of large quantities of what two food products are characteristic of popular culture?
a. b.
7. How is each of these food preferences expressed regionally, according to the culture?
A (from above)
B (from above)
8. Summarize the four facts you believe to be the most important to remember about wine production.
Wine
9. Give two reasons for which television is an especially significant element of culture:
1)
2)
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3. 10. Complete this chart with countries and/or regions.
television is universal television is common television is rare
11. Currently, where is the Internet most widely available?
12. To what regions will the Internet most likely spread next?
13. What regions, then, does that leave as still relatively untouched by the Internet, in the foreseeable future?
14. Describe the differences between US/Western hemisphere television control and that found elsewhere.
Western Hemisphere Elsewhere
15. Regarding governmental control of television…
a. How is it changing?
b. What is causing the changes?
c. What are the effects of these changes?
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