Uhm Geo
| Define local culture and popular culture. In what ways do local and popular culture interact? Think of local culture and popular as “ends of a continuum” and attempt to identify aspects of your locality which exemplify points along the continuum. |
2. | Think of your favorite local bands. In what ways do the music, attitudes, styles, and lyrical references of the band reflect local culture? In what ways does the band attempt to reterritorialize popular culture in the local context? |
3. | What is an ethnic neighborhood? Choose an example of an ethnic neighborhood and describe the traditions, customs and traits that set the ethnic group and its neighborhood apart from the popular culture. What are some of the internal and external threats to the local culture of the ethnic neighborhood you have chosen? |
4. | Think of the cultural landscape of the city or town where you live. Give examples of each of the three dimensions of cultural landscape convergence (1. globalized architectural forms and planning ideas; 2. widespread businesses (McDonald's) and products; 3. wholesale borrowing of idealized landscape images) operative in the landscape of your community. What attempts are being made to preserve local cultural landscape features against the encroachment of “placelessness”? |
5. | What technological advances have led to time-space compression and the associated rapidity of diffusion of change in the global system? Give examples of some of the benefits and of the liabilities of time-space compression. |
6. | Hutterites differ from the Amish in that they A. | reject modern technology. | B. | accept modern technology. | C. | are Anabaptist. | D. | live in Pennsylvania. | |
7. | The only Old Order Anabaptist group who live communally rather than in family farmsteads are the A. | Hutterites | B. | Brethren. | C. | Mennonites. | D. | Amish. | |
8. | Reflecting its origins and cultural tradition, Hutterite leaders speak A. |
2. | Think of your favorite local bands. In what ways do the music, attitudes, styles, and lyrical references of the band reflect local culture? In what ways does the band attempt to reterritorialize popular culture in the local context? |
3. | What is an ethnic neighborhood? Choose an example of an ethnic neighborhood and describe the traditions, customs and traits that set the ethnic group and its neighborhood apart from the popular culture. What are some of the internal and external threats to the local culture of the ethnic neighborhood you have chosen? |
4. | Think of the cultural landscape of the city or town where you live. Give examples of each of the three dimensions of cultural landscape convergence (1. globalized architectural forms and planning ideas; 2. widespread businesses (McDonald's) and products; 3. wholesale borrowing of idealized landscape images) operative in the landscape of your community. What attempts are being made to preserve local cultural landscape features against the encroachment of “placelessness”? |
5. | What technological advances have led to time-space compression and the associated rapidity of diffusion of change in the global system? Give examples of some of the benefits and of the liabilities of time-space compression. |
6. | Hutterites differ from the Amish in that they A. | reject modern technology. | B. | accept modern technology. | C. | are Anabaptist. | D. | live in Pennsylvania. | |
7. | The only Old Order Anabaptist group who live communally rather than in family farmsteads are the A. | Hutterites | B. | Brethren. | C. | Mennonites. | D. | Amish. | |
8. | Reflecting its origins and cultural tradition, Hutterite leaders speak A. |