Rural culture

Urban culture

Social media

Western society

Celebrity influence

International media corporations are largely based in America and Western Europe.

Western popular music is scientifically proven to be more pleasing.

Most music fans around the world want to be more like Americans.

There is not a strong tradition of popular music outside of America and Western Europe.

Western music is much easier to play at home on instruments.

Folk culture is often the result of cultural isolation, while popular culture often results from cultural diffusion.

Technology is reducing the scale of territory covered by popular culture.

The scale of territory covered by folk culture is often much larger than that of popular culture.

Popular and folk culture often remain unchanged for years.

folk culture

high culture

popular culture

international culture

children's culture

All of these answer choices accurately describe differences between folk culture and pop culture.

Pop culture is aided by the influence of mass media; whereas folk culture is obstructed by mass media.

Folk culture usually originates in a rural hearth; whereas pop culture usually originates in an urban hearth.

Pop culture experiences dramatic change over time; whereas folk culture tends to remain consistent over a number of generations.

Pop culture is uniform over a wide geographic area; whereas folk culture varies from community to community.