Chapter 4 Folk and Popular Culture

Leisure and recreation elements of folk culture and popular culture are distributed across Earth’s space. Compared to folk culture, popular culture is more likely to originate at a specific time and place and to diffuse over a wider region. Material folk culture and popular culture include food, shelter, and clothing. Folk culture is more likely to vary between places, whereas popular culture is more likely to vary between points in time.

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Weekly Objectives

-Topic 4 Folk and Popular Culture-

Key Issue 4.3: Why Is Access to Folk and Popular Culture Unequal?

Objectives:

• Compare the diffusion of TV and the Internet.
• Compare the distribution of social media with that of the TV and Internet.
• Understand threats to freedom of use of electronic media.

Key Issue 4.4: Why Do Folk and Popular Culture Face Sustainability  Challenges?

Objectives:

• Summarize challenges for folk culture from diffusion of popular culture.
• Summarize two principal ways that popular culture can adversely affect the environment

New Assignments Due 11/2

1. Key Issue 4.3 & 4.4 Assignment
2. Folk and Popular Culture Lab Activity

Late Assignments Due 11/2

1. Key Issue 4.1 Where Are Folk and Popular Leisure Activities Distributed?
2. Key Issue 4.2 Where Are Folk and Popular Material Culture Distributed?