Deck 13: The Global Geography of Culture

Question 1

What is culture?

A) it is based upon a theoretical set of characteristics
B) it is a continual process of being made and remade
C) it is produced as a permanent material product
D) it is based upon humankind's mastery over nature

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What term best describes a cultural region's boundaries?

A) uncontested
B) fixed
C) homogenous
D) fluid

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What is NOT an example of a cultural region?

A) The Mormon region has its core in Utah and Idaho and extends west and south.
B) The American South has a distinct speech, sense of self, and regional history.
C) The Amazon Basin is an area of extensive rainforest with various settlements.
D) The early diffusion of Islam spread along trading routes from the core outward.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What is a paracme?

A) rapid adoption and slow rejection of a practice
B) rejection of a former innovation, idea, or practice
C) slow adoption, then followed by slow rejection of an idea
D) quick diffusion of a practice, followed by a long, slow decline

Question 5

What is NOT one of the dynamically linked sources of cultural production?

A) connection with the local
B) relationship with the national
C) interaction with the global
D) affiliation with the static past

Question 6

The connection between culture and specific places is signified as the _____ of culture. Also important is the process of _____, in which cultures are lifted from particular places.

A) territorialization; deterritorialization
B) territorialization; globalization
C) deterritorialization; cultural appropriation
D) deterritorialization; territorialization

Question 7

What is most responsible for the deterritorialization of culture, representing important networks of information and capital flows that are particularly culturally embedded?

A) neoliberal agencies
B) popular culture and media
C) migrant communities
D) transnational corporations

Question 8

What architectural form makes use of local resources and traditions in design and construction?

A) transnational
B) vernacular
C) modernist
D) deconstructivist

Question 9

What is NOT an example of a transnational architectural style?

A) Neoclassical forms in the US to evoke democratic values
B) Folk designs of churches built from birch felled in local forests
C) Modernist forms of government buildings in various countries
D) Postmodern skyscrapers adorn urban skylines of many world cities

Question 10

How do scholars today describe how knowledge and mapping of the world occurred?

A) Europeans used technical advances to explore and map the rest of the world.
B) New knowledge was created through interactions of explorers and locals.
C) European's found existing indigenous cartographies to be unscientific and flawed.
D) New colonies of Europe were all mapped using only indigenous local knowledge.

Question 11

What specifically has made mass tourism possible and opened up access to the market?

A) increase in vacation time
B) growth in global wealth
C) increase in life expectancy
D) space-time convergence

Question 12

As the access and choices associated mass tourism increase, what becomes the most in-demand destination experience?

A) larger group experiences like cruise ships
B) a restricted experience, away from the crowds
C) smaller distance experiences like "locavore" movements
D) a faraway experience, away from anything familiar or safe

Question 13

What region was at the top of the hierarchy of geographical knowledge production, as a function of its economic and military power at the time?

A) Western Europe
B) Middle East
C) East Asia
D) Russia

Question 14

What is an example of Occidentalism?

A) Western perspectives dominate in the description of non-Western places.
B) Non-Western perspectives that come to produce anti-Western ideas and writings.
C) Importance of class and status to economic, political, and social elites across cultures.
D) Status and class are tied into a social hierarchy similar to the caste system in India.

Question 15

What is the process by which the commodification of some local cultures gets dispersed worldwide?

A) cultural economy
B) ornamentalism
C) cultural globalization
D) glocalization

Question 16

Why have American cultural products been so particularly successful at global dispersal?

A) American cultural products are already produced for a heterogeneous experience.
B) Following its increased political visibility, there is a growing global interest in US culture.
C) American transnational corporations economically and culturally globalize other states.
D) All of the above.

Question 17

What term describes the business strategy that companies like Coca-Cola employ by marketing and selling both global Coca-Cola brands alongside brands that appeal to unique tastes and ingredients?

A) globalization
B) deterritorialization
C) glocalization
D) reterritorialization

Question 18

What economic context do specific cultural industries and forms of practice emerge within?

A) mature capitalist economies
B) most developed countries
C) affluent urban areas
D) all of these

Question 19

What is the best description of the homogenization thesis?

A) Globalization decreases sameness, shown by decreases in similar cultural products.
B) Globalization increases sameness, shown by increases in similar cultural products.
C) Globalization decreases difference, shown by increases in different cultural products.
D) Globalization increases difference, shown by decreases in different cultural products.

Question 20

Why do cultural geographers critique the homogenization thesis and instead argue for the existence of a variety of global cultures?

A) similar cultural goods mean different things in different places
B) world peoples' growing familiarity with the presence of different cultures
C) geographers have observed a growing concern with authenticity and local cultures
D) all of these