Social Sciences and History / Unit 11 SSH 1019 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Folk Culture Against Popular Culture
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The idea
Folk culture is practiced by a small, homogeneous, usually rural group; the anchor also calls it traditional, and many of its attributes date from the diffusion of agriculture. Popular culture is created for consumption by the mass of the population and arrived with the industrial age.
In practice
Fashion: the latest, most esteemed style.
Where people slip
Homogeneous, similar people; heterogeneous, dissimilar.
Your place on the trail
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