What is culture? What elements make up a culture? Why do cultures change?
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What is culture?
What elements make up a culture?
Why do cultures change?
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Culture is
1. All the features of a society’s way of life.
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Culture is
2. Learned and passed down from generation to generation.
Think: Santa Claus
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Culture
3. Includes all of a society’s shared values, beliefs, institutions, and technologies.
Think: US Flag, Freedom of Speech
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Culture . . .
4. Gives roles to individuals and establishes relationships within groups in a society.
Think: School relationships
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Cultural Traits
•Activities and behaviors that people repeatedly practice.
•They can vary
Think: eating US: fork, knife, spoon China: chopsticks Malaysia: fingers/hands
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Culture Traits, cont.
•Change through time
Think: clothing styles in the USA from colonial period to today
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How do cultures change?
•Assimilation•Innovation•Diffusion•Acculturation
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Assimilation
•When one culture group adapts to the attitudes, belief systems and ways of life of another culture.
Think: Native Americans
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Innovation
•New ideas that are accepted into a culture.
Think: Horse v. cars, etc.
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Diffusion
•The spread of an innovation or other culture trait into another culture region, which then adopts that element into its own culture.
Think: Hip Hop or Rap Music
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Diffusion, cont.
•The spread can be gradual.
Think: Country music from Nashville, TN
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Diffusion, cont.
•Or the spread can happen when people move from a region and carry the innovation with them.
Think: Christianity from Europe
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Acculturation
•When one culture changes a great deal through its meeting with another culture.
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Acculturation, cont.
•Usually a two-way process in which each culture changes the other.
Think: USA fast food and the growth of ethnic foods.