Dont Forget

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Dont Forget

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CHAPTER TWOTHE ROOTS AND MEANING OF CULTURE

• Chapter 2
• Section 8
• Pages 51-58

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Overlapping Designations

• House
• Artifact provides shelter
• Sociofact defines the nature of family
• Clothing
• Artifact provides bodily protection
• Sociofact identifies ones role in society
• Nothing in culture stands alone!
• Cultural Integration the interlocking nature

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Culture Change

• Hunter-Gather
• Sedentary Farmer
• Agricultural Surplus
• Population Growth
• Specialization of Labor
• Villages, Towns, Cities
• Organized Government, Society, Religion

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Culture Change

• Industrial Revolution
• Light Bulb
• Automobile Railroad
• Telephone
• Radio
• Technological Revolution

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Innovation

• Changes to a culture that result from ideas
  created and adopted.
• Bow and Arrow
• Jet Engine
• Feudalism
• Christianity
• Cultural Lag - unresponsive

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Innovation

• 10,000 BC
• 10 million people 100 hunters-gatherers
• AD 1500
• 350 million people 1 hunters-gatherers

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Diffusion

• Process by which an idea is transmitted from one
  to another.
• People may move
• Information may spread
• Relocation Diffusion
• Expansion Diffusion

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Expansion Diffusion

• The spread of an idea from one place to another.
• Islam
• Contagious Diffusion
• Saturation
• Barrier is reached
• Time-Distance Decay

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Diffusion

• Hierarchical Diffusion
• Chistianity
• Distance is relative to communication network
  involved.
• Space-Time Compression
• Radio, Telephones, Internet

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Diffusion

• Stimulus Diffusion
• Cherokee writing
• Sequoyah 1820
• The Cherokee Phoenix

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Relocation Diffusion

• Spread of Religions
• Agriculture
• Colonization

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Rejection

• Not because of lack of knowledge but because
  the new idea violate established culture.
• Affordability
• Independent Invention

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Acculturation

• Adopting some or all of the characteristics of
  another, dominate culture group.
• Transculturation an equal two-way flow

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