Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes

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Chapter 4 Key Issue 1: Where Are Folk and Popular Leisure Activities Distributed?

4.1.1 Compare the origin, diffusion and distribution of folk and popular culture.

4.1.2 Compare the characteristics of folk and popular music.

4.1.3 Describe how sports have been transformed from folk to popular culture.

Chapter 4 Key Issue 2: Where Are Folk and Popular Material Culture Distributed?

4.2.1 Compare reasons for distribution of clothing styles in folk and popular culture.

4.2.2 Understand reasons for folk food preferences and taboos.

4.2.3 Describe regional variations in popular food preferences.

4.2.4 Understand factors that influence patterns of folk housing.

4.2.5 Understand variations in time and pace of housing in the US.

Chapter 4 Key Issue 3: Why is Access to Folk and Popular Culture Unequal?

4.3.1 Describe the origin, diffusion, and distribution of TV around the world.

4.3.2 Compare the diffusion of the internet and social media with the diffusion of TV.

4.3.3 Understand external and internal threats to folk culture posed by electronic media.

Chapter 4 Key Issue 4: Why Do Folk and Popular Culture Face Sustainability Problems?

4.4.1 Summarize challenges for folk culture from diffusion of popular culture.

4.4.2 Summarize the two principal ways that popular culture can adversely affect the environment.

4.4.3 Summarize major sources of waste and the extent to which each is recycled.

Chapter 5 Key Issue 1: Where Are Languages Distributed?

5.1.1 Name the largest language families.

5.1.2 Identify the names and distribution of the 2 largest language families.

5.1.3 Identify the names and distribution of the largest language families in addition to Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan.

Chapter 5 Key Issue 2: Why is English Related to Other Languages?

5.2.1 Learn the distribution of the Germanic and Indo-Iranian branches of Indo-European.

5.2.2 Learn the distribution of the Balto-Slavic and Romance branches of Indo-European.

5.2.3 Understand the origin and diffusion of English.

5.2.4 Understand the two theories of the origin and diffusion of Indo-European.

Chapter 5 Key Issue 3: Why Do Individual Languages Vary Among Places?

5.3.1 Describe the main dialects in the US.

5.3.2 Understand the main ways that British and US English dialects vary.

5.3.3 Understand why it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between a language and a dialect.

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Chapter 5 Key Issue 4: Why do People Preserve Local Languages?

5.4.1 Understand how several countries peacefully embrace more than one language.

5.4.2 Understand what is meant by an isolated language and an extinct language.

5.4.3 Understand why the number of Celtic speakers has declined and how the languages are being preserved.

5.4.4 Understand the concept of lingua franca.

5.4.5 Understand how English has diffused to other languages.

5.4.6 Understand the role of Spanish and French in North America.

Chapter 6 Key Issue 1: Where Are Religions Distributed?

6.1.1 Describe the distribution of the major religions.

6.1.2 Describe the distribution of the major branches of Christianity.

6.1.3 Identify the major branches of Islam and Buddhism.

6.1.4 Describe the distribution of the largest ethnic religions.

Chapter 6 Key Issue 2: Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions?

6.2.1 Describe the process of origin of universalizing religions.

6.2.2 Understand differences in the origin of universalizing and ethnic religions.

6.2.3 Describe the process of diffusion of universalizing religions.

6.2.4 Compare the diffusion of universalizing and ethnic religions.

Chapter 6 Key Issue 3: Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Patterns?

6.3.1 Compare the role of places of worship in various religions.

6.3.2 Explain why places are sacred in universalizing religions.

6.3.3 Analyze the importance of the physical geography in ethnic religions.

6.3.4 Describe ways in which the landscape is used in religiously significant ways.

6.3.5 Compare the calendars and holidays of ethnic and universalizing religions.

6.3.6 Compare the administrative organization of hierarchical and locally autonomous religions.

Chapter 6 Key Issue 4: Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise Among Religious Groups?

6.4.1 Understand reasons for religious conflicts arising from government policies.

6.4.2 Summarize reasons for conflicts between religions.

6.4.3 Analyze reasons for religious conflicts between religions.

6.4.4 Describe differences in geographic frameworks in the Middle East.

6.4.5 Explain the importance of Jerusalem to Jews and Muslims.