The Elements of Culture

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The Elements of Culture
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What is Culture?????

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

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Element 1. Language (Sharing the same Language)

• Dialects- A local form of a language that may
  have a distinct vocabulary and pronunciation

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Element 2. Religion (Answer questions about
lifes meaning)

• Major Religions
• Judaism
• Abraham
• Islam
• Muhammad
• Hinduism
• Unknown
• Christianity
• Jesus Christ
• Buddhism
• Siddhartha Gautama

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Element 3 Social Groups

• A Social group develops to help the people of a
  culture work together to meet basic needs. In
  all cultures, the family is the most important
  group. Most cultures are also made up of social
  classes groups of people ranked according to
  wealth,

• education, or ancestry. An ethnic group is made
  of people who share a common language, history,
  place of origin, or a combination of these
  elements.

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Element 4a. Economy (How people earn a living)

• Economic SystemThe method used to answer three
  questions
• 1. What goods and services to produce
• 2. How to produce them
• 3. Who will receive them

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Element 4b. Government (Rules in order to live
together without conflict)

• Types of Government
• Democracy---Power is held by the people
• Autocracy The leader rules by force
• Monarchy----- a government led by a king or queen
  by a ruling family

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What is a Culture Region?

• To organize their understanding of cultural
  development, geographers divide the Earch into
  culture regions these include countries that
  have certain traits in common, such as
  government, economic systems, social groups,
  histories, religions, art, etc.

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Cultural Words to Remember

• Cultural DiffusionThe Process of spreading
  ideas, languages, or customs from one culture to
  another
• GlobalizationThe development of a worldwide
  culture with an independent economy