A restriction on behavior imposed by a social custom is called a
Taboo
which of the following characteristics is more typical of a popular culture?
it results in a more uniform landscape
Which of the following was an important source area for US folk house types?
Lower CHeasapeake
Pioneer Farmers settling the grasslands of the American West often built houses of sod, while early settlers iof th eeastern forest built wooden structures like log cabins. This suggests that building materials
are strongly influenced by local resources.
Hip hop music originated in New York in the late 1970's in
the South Bronx.
The use of a horse and buggy by the Amish in the US is an example of a
folk culture
Diffusion of internet service is following the earlier pattern of television, except
diffusion is much faster.
The number of television sets per person is greatest in
North America
A taboo against pork is a characteristic of
Judiasm and Islam
As they have more contact with popular culture, women in LDC's are more likely to
gain more opportunities outside the home
In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of
large heterogeneous groups
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characterisitc of a group of people is a
custom
A group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into individual languages is a
language group
English is part of which language group?
West Germanic
Which of the following is the world's largest language family?
Austronesian
Which of the following languages is spoken by the most people?
Mandarin Chinese
Swahili is part of the _____ language family
Niger-Congo
Swahili is also know as a _____ in Southern Africa
lingua franca
Which of the following languages/language family pairs does the Semitic language group belong to?
Hebrew/Afto-Asiatic
A group of languages that share a common ancestor in the recent past is a
language branch
This type of language is no longer spoken or read in daily activities by anyone in the worls
Extinct language
Which of the following will encompass the largest number of speakers?
Language family
Which of the following is not a Romance language?
German
Which of the following language brances is not a member of the Indo-European language family?
Caucasian
The ancesteral roots of the English language have been traced back to present day
Denmark
The second-most commonly spoken language in South AMerica is
Portuguese
A creolized language is a local language mixed with
the language of a colonial power
The most common branch in Eastern Europe is
Balto-Slavic
The primary reason why there are so many distinct languages in Africa is
long periods of isolation between tribes
The predominant lingua franca today is
English
A literary tradition is
the written form of a language
According to the Anatolian Hearth theory, Indo-European languages diffused across Europe