Culture Change

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Chapter 3

• Section 5

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Culture Change

• Does culture change?
• How does culture change?
• Discovery the process of finding something that
  already exists. Ex. Female Athletics
• Invention Creation of something new. Ex. Cell
  Phone
• Diffusion The borrowing aspects of culture from
  other cultures. Ex. Food, Dress

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Cultural Diversity

• Exists in all societies
• Some are results of Social Categories
• Group characteristics such as
• Age
• Gender
• Religions
• Certain Behaviors are associated with these
  characteristics
• Social categories are groupings of persons who
  share a social characteristic.
• Example Catholics

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Cultural Diversity Subcultures and
Countercultures

• Subculture
• A group that is part of the dominant culture but
  that differs from it in some important aspects.
• Examples
• Chinatown in San Francisco
• Musicians
• Circus peoples

• Counterculture
• A subculture deliberately and consciously opposed
  to certain central beliefs or attitudes of the
  dominant culture.
• Examples
• Goths and Punks
• Revolutionary groups
• Gangs

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Ethnocentrism

• Ethnocentrism judging others in terms of ones
  own cultural standards.
• What are some examples of Ethnocentrism?
• How can Ethnocentrism affect a society?

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Cultural Universals

• Cultures are different but do share some common
  aspects, these are called
• Cultural Universals Are general culture traits
  that exist in all cultures.
• They include
• Sports
• cooking
• Courtship
• Government
• Medicine
• Music
• language

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Cultural Universals

• Cultural Universal are not always carried out in
  the same way.
• Different cultures have different ways of
  expressing universals.
• These are called Cultural Particulars
• Cultural Particulars are the ways in which a
  culture expresses universal traits.

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Cultural Universals

• Why do they exist?
• Humans are biologically similar
• Ex. Children are born- need to be cared for,
  people become ill- medical care.
• Environmental Factors
• Humans need protection from elements, people need
  food and where you live dictates diet.