Culture

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Culture

• The Elements of Culture

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Culture

• Culture The way of life of a group of people who
  share similar beliefs and customs.

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Elements of Culture
These are things that all cultures have in
common. What might some of those things be?

• Social Organization
• -When a culture organize its members into
  smaller groups
• What might some smaller groups be in a culture?
• Families
• Religious groups
• Social classes

• Occupation
• Interest groups

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Elements of Culture

• Social Organization cont.
• - family the most important unit of social
  organization
• Nuclear family- husband, wife, children
• Extended family- several generations in one
  household
• - respect for elders is usually strong in
  extended fams.

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Elements of Culture

• Social Organization cont.
• - social classes a way to rank people in order
  of status
• What can social class be based on?
• Money
• Occupation
• Education
• Race
• Etc.

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Elements of Culture

• 1. Social Groups cont.
• Ethnic group- made up of people who share a
  common language, history, place of origin, or a
  combination of these elements

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Elements of Culture

• 2. Customs and Traditions
• - rules of behavior (written and unwritten)
• - Influenced by its history

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Elements of Culture

• Language
• Important for communication and passing on
  traditions and beliefs
• One of the most unifying elements of a culture
• Dialects
• Language Families

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Elements of Culture

• 4. The Arts Literature, Music, Architecture,
  Paintings, Sculptures etc.
• - Teach about a cultures values
• - Promote cultural pride and unity

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Elements of Culture

• Religion
• Monotheism belief in one god
• Polytheism belief in more than one god
• Major World Religions
• Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism

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Elements of Culture

• 6. Forms of Government
• We have already talked about thisremember the
  chart?

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Elements of Culture

• 7. Economic Systems
• Four types
• 1. Traditional people produce most of what
  they need to survive
• 2. Market basic economic questions are answered
  by buying/selling goods and services
• 3. Command government controls answers to
  economic questions
• 4. Mixed individuals make some economic
  decisions, the government makes others

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Elements of Culture

• 8. Other minor elements of culture
• Food
• Clothing
• Mannerisms

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Ways Cultures Change

• Cultures are constantly changing!
• Technology
• Cars, telephone, computers, fast food, etc.
• Environment Changes
• New Ideas (like recycling)
• Cultural Diffusion movement of customs and ideas
  from one place to another
• (can happen because of migration, war, trade,
  etc.)

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Be Careful of

• Ethnocentrism judging other cultures by the
  standards of your own
• Racism belief that one racial group is naturally
  superior to another

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Agricultural Revolution

• About 10,000 yrs ago, people were nomads who
  moved from place to place in search for food and
  grazing land
• Eventually the earths climate warmed and they
  settled in river valleys (permanent villages) and
  began farming
• The shift from gathering food to producing food
  is the Agricultural Revolution

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Culture Hearths

• Early centers of civilization whose ideas and
  practices spread to surrounding areas
• Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, China, and Mexico

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Industrial Revolution

• 1700s and 1800s production methods change the
  way goods can be produced
• People left farms to work in the cities in
  factories
• Cities grew larger

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Information Revolution

• End of 1900s computers make it possible to store
  information and send it all over the world in an
  instant
• Links the cultures of the world more closely than
  ever before

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