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Leisure and society
Exam 2
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Environmental Studies
Undergraduate 1
03/10/2010

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Term
What are the 4 elements/ characteristics of a culture and give ad example of each.
Definition

Shared- sport participation based on culture

Learned - apppropriate time to eat

symbols- scoring system in basketball

integrated- after communism changes occured in leisure resources

Term
What is "enculturation"?
Definition
The process which culture is transmitted from one generation to the next.
Term
What are the 4 ways that a culture can change? Name some examples.
Definition

People stat at home more- work from out of home

Television used as role models-SpongeBob square pants

Forms of leisure expand- fancier restaurants

New forms of leisure develop-extreme sports

Term
What is "cultural development" and how is the term "developing" misleading
Definition
Procvess of improving the maerial conditions of people through the diffusion of knowledge and technology
Term

How do we measure development?

(3 areas/ 4 factors)

Definition

HDI- Human Development Index-

Economic Factor- gross domestic product

Social Factor-literacy rate and amount of education

Demographic Factor- Life expectancy

Term
What is HDI and what contributes to it? Who has traditionally had high/low HDI scores?
Definition

Human Development Index- recognizes the country's level of development.

Canade-High

Sierra Leone- Low

Term
What are the characteristics of a "post-modern" culture.
Definition

Media Society

Society of Spectacle

Consumer Society

Term
What is "culture happiness" and what 6 factors contribute to it?
Definition

Something that should be embraced with excessive joy.

Understanding the environment and how to control it

Social suppport from family and friends

The satisfaction of species drives

The satisfaction of drives for physical well-being

The satisfaction of aesthetic and sensory drives

The satisfaction of exploratory drives

Term
What are some potential impacts of climate change on the reaction and tourism profession?
Definition

Polar

Temperature

Subtropics

Tropics

Term

Leisure as Space can be considered in 3 different ways, what are these? Differentiate between them.

 

Definition

Density-the frequency with which something occurs in space

Concentration- the extent of a feature's spread over space

Pattern- the geometric arrangement of objects in space

Term
What are place attachment and place identity? Examples?
Definition

Place attachment- an emotional bond that develops between a person and a certain place- auditorium

Place identity- place as a source of identification and affiliation for a person-Home

Term
What factors determine whether or not "crowding" impacts someone's leisure experience? (3 of them)
Definition

The personal characteristic of visitors

The characteristics of other visitors encountered

The nature of the outdoor

 

Term
What is "carrying capacity"?
Definition
The number of a species that a habitat can support without permanently damaging it
Term
What is common culture?
Definition
What most people in our societies do with most of their free time-also known as popular culture
Term
List four characteristics in distinguishing common culture nad give examples of each.
Definition

Popular- children Stories

Commercial- Titanic

Trendy- Beyonce

Specific to Age Group- reality TV

Term
High Culture and Folk Culture
Definition

High Culture-typical pastimes of the elite

Folk Culture- local pastimes shared through direct, oral communication

Term
What innovation is the hub of common culture?
Definition
Television
Term
How is North American popular music pluralistic?
Definition
Based on our ethnicity, religious, race, and social diaverse
Term
How is the role of meditated entertainment positive or negative in shapin and reflecting the values of our society?
Definition
Can help with things such as eye hand coordination's, but attention spend can be shortened.
Term
What are some proposed trends for leisure in the future (based on technology advances?)
Definition

Plane Zorbing

Automatic music composition

Toy soldiier with video camera eyes

Theaters allowing internet attendance

 

Term
How has technological advancement hurt or helped reaction and leisure. Give examples.
Definition
Has given some innovative places to play and better equipment, has also hurt the environment. Computers.
Term
What is a cyber culture?
Definition
Way of life created by heavy use of computers.
Term
Be able to articulate how violence seems to accompany the use of technology in leisure. Example.
Definition
fsome people may try to articulate violent games iinto real life.
Term
Know the positive influences nad negative sonsequence from tech. advance in leisure and give examples.
Definition

Really get kids involced, ability to learn ploblem solving, and safe form of fantasy.

Begin to play all the time; don't learn life problem solving, pushed into prefabricated fantasy instead of their own.

Term
Social Capital
Definition
Feature of community life, such as interpersonal networks, volunteering, and participation in self-governance.
Term
What skills will the professional in leisure need to develop to build or restore social capitol within communities?
Definition
Skills in community development, group dynamics, and commiunity organizations, as well as access to a computer.
Term
What are the three types of constraints described in class?
Definition

Structural

Interpersonal

Intrapersonal

Term
Explain the concept of Inclusion and the two types (physical and social).
Definition

Inclusion is the involvement and full acceptance of persons with special needs into a wide range of community settings.

Physical-making things possible for the physical disable

Social-bring people together

Term
What strategies might be used to increase the likelihood of social inclusion (name 2)
Definition
Bring church members nad nearby college students together.
Term
Identify 3 specific trends related to women's leisure.
Definition

Mother

Mate

Daughter

Term
Explain the differece between assimilation and pluralism as possible trends among racial groups and leisure? Which of these two possibilities has actually happened?
Definition
assimilation is the absorption into the system; Pluralism is when members of diverse ethnic adn racial groups maintain separate participation in their traidtional cultures. Assimilation is what actually hapensi in today's world.
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