Culture

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Culture

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• What is Culture?

• Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors
• shared and passed on by a group.

How do we learn culture?

• Learned from family, school, peers.
• Learned from media, social institutions.

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What are the Elements of Culture?

1. Language
2. Religion (beliefs / morals / mores)
3. Food and Shelter (Types / Styles)
4. Education Systems
5. Security/Protection
6. Relationships Family and Others
7. Political and Social Organizations
8. Creative Expression - Recreation

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1. Language

• Allows for communication to exist
• Helps establish cultural identities
• Oral tradition - Helps pass cultural traits along
  through generations
• There are between 3,000 and 6,500 different
  languages spoken in the world today
• We know of 7,000 that have been spoken
• Dialect different versions of the same basic
  language

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2. Religion

• The belief in a supernatural power or powers,
  responsible for the creation and maintenance of
  the universe
• Major Types of Religions?
• Monotheistic belief in one god
• Polytheistic belief in many gods
• Animistic or Traditional belief in the forces
  of nature
• Nontheistic Supernatural, but no deities
• Atheistic No deities, no supernatural

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3. Food and Shelter The places we live and the
things we eat
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4. Education

• How culture is taught or learned
• Formal Schools, Universities, Religion (church)
• In-Formal Family, Friends, Social Clubs / Groups

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5. Security/Protection

• Military National Govt.
• Police Local Govt.
• Family - Tribe

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6. Relationships Family and Others

• Family
• Friends
• Classmates / Co-Workers

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7. Political and social organization

• Government System
• Make rules and laws to keep society in order
• Clubs
• Examples? Boys and Girls, Boy Scouts, FFA,
  Optimists,
• Fraternal organizations
• Kiwanis, University, Veterans, Masonic etc.

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8. Creative Expression - Recreation

• Music
• instruments, singing
• Art
• Paintings, sculpture, photography
• Dance
• Theater
• Literature
• Novels, Poems
• Architecture
• Sports
• Outdoor activities
• Hobbies

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What is your culture?
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Where do cultures start?

• Cultural Hearth where innovations, ideas,
  materials and technology begin

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How do cultures change and spread?
Innovation creating something new to meet a
need.
Can you think of an example of this?
Diffusion spread of ideas, inventions, or
patterns of behavior
Can you think of an example of this?
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How do cultures change and spread?
Assimilation smaller society adopts the culture
of a majority group
Can you think of an example of this?
Acculturation society accepts or adopts an
innovation
Can you think of an example of this?
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• The Columbian Exchange
• The exchange of animals, plants, culture and
  human populations including slaves, communicable
  diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and
  Western hemispheres after 1492

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What are these examples of?
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How are cultural regions organized?

• Society a group that shares a geographic
  region, a sense of identity and a culture
• Ethnic groups a specific group within a society
  that shares a common language, customs, and
  heritage

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What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

• Race physical - biological and physical
  differences skin color, cranial size and shape,
  and hair type.
• Ethnicity social/mental - values, institutions,
  and patterns of behavior within a group