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| What are the 4 elements/ characteristics of a culture and give ad example of each. |
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Shared- sport participation based on culture
Learned - apppropriate time to eat
symbols- scoring system in basketball
integrated- after communism changes occured in leisure resources |
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| The process which culture is transmitted from one generation to the next. |
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| What are the 4 ways that a culture can change? Name some examples. |
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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 |
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| What is "cultural development" and how is the term "developing" misleading |
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| Procvess of improving the maerial conditions of people through the diffusion of knowledge and technology |
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How do we measure development?
(3 areas/ 4 factors) |
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HDI- Human Development Index-
Economic Factor- gross domestic product
Social Factor-literacy rate and amount of education
Demographic Factor- Life expectancy |
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| What is HDI and what contributes to it? Who has traditionally had high/low HDI scores? |
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Human Development Index- recognizes the country's level of development.
Canade-High
Sierra Leone- Low |
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| What are the characteristics of a "post-modern" culture. |
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Media Society
Society of Spectacle
Consumer Society |
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| What is "culture happiness" and what 6 factors contribute to it? |
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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
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| What are some potential impacts of climate change on the reaction and tourism profession? |
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Polar
Temperature
Subtropics
Tropics |
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Leisure as Space can be considered in 3 different ways, what are these? Differentiate between them.
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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 |
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| What are place attachment and place identity? Examples? |
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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 |
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| What factors determine whether or not "crowding" impacts someone's leisure experience? (3 of them) |
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The personal characteristic of visitors
The characteristics of other visitors encountered
The nature of the outdoor
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| What is "carrying capacity"? |
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| The number of a species that a habitat can support without permanently damaging it |
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| What most people in our societies do with most of their free time-also known as popular culture |
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| List four characteristics in distinguishing common culture nad give examples of each. |
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Popular- children Stories
Commercial- Titanic
Trendy- Beyonce
Specific to Age Group- reality TV |
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| High Culture and Folk Culture |
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High Culture-typical pastimes of the elite
Folk Culture- local pastimes shared through direct, oral communication |
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| What innovation is the hub of common culture? |
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| How is North American popular music pluralistic? |
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| Based on our ethnicity, religious, race, and social diaverse |
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| How is the role of meditated entertainment positive or negative in shapin and reflecting the values of our society? |
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Definition
| Can help with things such as eye hand coordination's, but attention spend can be shortened. |
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| What are some proposed trends for leisure in the future (based on technology advances?) |
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Plane Zorbing
Automatic music composition
Toy soldiier with video camera eyes
Theaters allowing internet attendance
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| How has technological advancement hurt or helped reaction and leisure. Give examples. |
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| Has given some innovative places to play and better equipment, has also hurt the environment. Computers. |
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| Way of life created by heavy use of computers. |
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| Be able to articulate how violence seems to accompany the use of technology in leisure. Example. |
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| fsome people may try to articulate violent games iinto real life. |
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| Know the positive influences nad negative sonsequence from tech. advance in leisure and give examples. |
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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. |
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| Feature of community life, such as interpersonal networks, volunteering, and participation in self-governance. |
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| What skills will the professional in leisure need to develop to build or restore social capitol within communities? |
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| Skills in community development, group dynamics, and commiunity organizations, as well as access to a computer. |
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| What are the three types of constraints described in class? |
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Structural
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal |
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| Explain the concept of Inclusion and the two types (physical and social). |
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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 |
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| What strategies might be used to increase the likelihood of social inclusion (name 2) |
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| Bring church members nad nearby college students together. |
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| Identify 3 specific trends related to women's leisure. |
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| Explain the differece between assimilation and pluralism as possible trends among racial groups and leisure? Which of these two possibilities has actually happened? |
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| 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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