Social Customs of the World

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Social Customs of the World

• Cultural Geography
• Carol Jean Cox.

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Chapter 6 Overview

• Key Terms
• Distribution of Social Customs
• The Relationship Between The Landscape and the
  Development of Unique Folk Regions
• Organization of Popular Customs on the
  Landscape
• Impact of Popular Customs
• Problems Resulting From the World wide
  Convergence of Popular Customs

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Social customs are a key role in the makeup of a
peoples culture.
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Key Terms

• Culture A learned way of life that includes
  social customs
• Custom characteristics or behaviors of a group
  of people
• food, clothing, shelter, arts, recreation/leisure,
  housing, sports, festivals, music, medicine
• Habit characteristic of an individual

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Folk and Popular Customs

• Folk Customs-
• provide identity to a particular group
• are derived from local landscapes
• are spread over small areas and
• are influenced by the physical environment.

• Popular Customs-
• do not provide identity to a particular group
• tend to modify local landscapes
• are spread over large areas and
• are imposed on the physical environment.

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Distribution of Social Customs
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Folk Sports
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Folk Sports
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Popular Sports
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HOUSING

• Following this title page are samples of building
  styles from around the world. The types of
  architecture shown define its peoples
  environment and play a key role in social customs.

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Folk Housing
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Folk Housing
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Folk Housing
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Folk Housing
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Folk Housing
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Folk Housing
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HOUSING Nigeria (folk)

• In Nigeria, where the weather is hot and dry, the
  people live in mud houses. Thick walls help to
  keep the houses cool. Because of the peoples
  adaptation to the weather, this would be a
  Nigerian folk custom

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HOUSING Colombia (folk)

• This house in Colombia is built on stilts and
  stays dry even when the water rises. This is
  another example of how the people have grown
  accustomed to their surroundings and have created
  a folk custom.

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HOUSING Canada (popular)

• A modern apartment building in Canada looks
  similar to a pueblo. It serves as a popular
  custom because the landscape has been modified
  and shares similarities of other structures in
  the world.

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FOOD

• Many types of food, though heavily influenced by
  America, have remained the main source of diet
  for other cultures.

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FOOD Japan (folk)

• A schoolboy uses chopsticks to eat a lunch of
  rice balls. Due to heavy amounts of moisture,
  rice is one of the main sources of food in Japan.
  

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FOOD Great Britain (folk)

• Fish and chips--fried fish and French fried
  potatoes--are a favorite in England. Accompanied
  by vinegar, they are often wrapped in paper,
  taken out, and eaten with the fingers.

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FOOD Mexico (folk)

• Children in Mexico love sweet potato candy.
  Sweet potatoes are a widely enjoyed dessert tray
  among Mexican people.

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CLOTHING USA (folk)

• American colonial folk costumes

France
England
Germany
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CLOTHING Albania (folk)
Albanian folk costumes from Pristina(Kosova)

• Mens costumes from Rugova( Kosova)

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CLOTHING Scotland (folk)

• For hundreds of years, Scottish men and boys have
  proudly worn a kind of skirt called a kilt
  females display a longer version of the kilt.

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CLOTHING Australia (folk)

• These Aborigine children live in a hot, dry
  desert. They, and their parents, often dont
  wear clothes.

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CLOTHING Alaska (folk)

• In the harsh snowy weather of Alaska, the Eskimos
  must wear thick furs of beaver and bear to keep
  themselves warm.

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MUSIC

• Music is yet another form of expressing ones
  culture through creativity and harmony. Much of
  the instruments of today can be traced back to
  specific regions of culture.

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MUSIC India (folk)

• The sitar is a stringed instrument of India made
  of gourds and teak and has a track of 20 metal
  frets with 6-7 main playing strings above and 13
  resonating strings below.

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MUSIC USA (folk)

• This is a guitar that transmits tones to an
  amplifier by means of an electronic pickup placed
  under the strings. This instrument has been an
  American favorite for decades.

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MUSIC Jamaica (folk)

• This is a metal percussion instrument of Cajun
  origin. The steel drum is fashioned from an oil
  barrel and has a concave array of flattened areas
  that produce different tones when struck.

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HOLIDAYS

• Some holidays are the birthdays of great leaders
  or of famous people. Some are the birthdays of
  nations. Others are to remind us of those who
  have served their country in time of war.

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HOLIDAYS France (folk)

• July 14-Bastille Day This holiday is much like
  the 4th of July here. It is a national holiday,
  when everyone celebrates the countrys
  independence.

• Bastille Day parade in Paris, France.

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HOLIDAYS Germany (folk)

• Oktoberfest This sixteen-day celebration begins
  in September. The first Oktoberfest was held in
  1810, to celebrate the wedding of King Ludwig and
  his queen, Theresa.

• A wagon loaded with beer barrels in Munich,
  Germany

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HOLIDAYS Brazil (folk)

• Mardi Gras is a parading celebration from an old
  custom where an ox was led through the streets to
  remind people not to eat meat during Lent-Ash
  Wednesday to Easter Sunday.

• Rio de Janeiro dances in the streets.

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Summary of Social Customs

• Folk Customs
• customs ranging in small areas still commonly
  used by the people
• Popular Customs
• spread throughout the world with no identity to a
  certain culture

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Problems with the Popularization of Customs

• Media Dominance
• ideas promoted of glorification of youth
• stylized violence
• freedom for women
• social mobility
• Environmental Problems
• land, air, water, sound pollution
• depletion of scarce resources

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Social Customs

• Popular Folk Customs
• Distribution of Social Customs
• The Relationship Between The Landscape and the
  Development of Unique Folk Regions
• Organization of Popular Customs on the
  Landscape
• Impact of Popular Customs
• Problems Resulting From the World wide
  Convergence of Popular Customs

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Works Cited

• All photographs were taken from Childcraft
  Encyclopedias volumes 3, 9, and 15 1981.
• Graphic samples (clothing title page, taken from
  Wheres Waldo Childrens Book 1987.

• Graphic samples (house title page, food title
  page) taken from Microsoft Clip Art Gallery,
  Power Point 95.
• Photograph (music title page) taken from DRUM
  Magazine, 1995.