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Culture • All of the aspects and features that make up a peoples way of life. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57KW6RO8Rcs Where were you born? • Where you were born and who your family is, will be the biggest determining factor for the culture that you will call your own. • However, culture is LEARNED behavior. Viewing Culture • MATERIAL CULTURE • NON-MATERIAL CULTURE • The physical aspects that we can see, feel, hear, taste, or build. • The elements of our culture that involve what we believe and or exhibit by our behavior. Areas of Cultural Study CULTURAL TRAITS LANGUAGE RELIGION FOOD CLOTHING HOUSING CUSTOMS TRADITIONS POLITICAL & ECON. SYSTEM Cultural Regions • An area where the people share common cultural characteristics. • This is usually a limited region with a significant unifying factor. • Which cultural traits might be more apt to promote unity? • Religion, ethnicity, language Culture is Dynamic • Though our culture is our cumulative experiences, it changes over time. • How is your culture different from your parents? • How will your children’s culture be different from yours? Where’s Baldo? Movement of Ideas • Diffusion: – Diffusion happens when an idea, innovation, or technique spreads from one person or group to another. Contact brings about Change • Two or more cultures interacting can lead to two types of change. • Acculturation – When a dominant culture imposes one or more of its cultural traits on the minority or weaker one. • Transculturation – An exchange of ideas that goes both ways in borrowing ideas from one another. Examples of Cultural Change • Acculturation: • The English language became the dominant language of the United States despite multiple languages of immigrants. • Transculturation: • Foods became blended to create American-Italian Tex-Mex Chinese/American Types of Diffusion • Relocation diffusion – When an idea is literally brought by individuals or groups to a new location. • Expansion diffusion – When the idea spreads by moving through a population or society from its core and expanding into new geographic realms. Specific forms of Expansion Diffusion • Contagious diffusion – When the idea spreads by moving through a population or society from its core and expanding into new geographic realms. • Hierarchical (jumping) • Stimulus (jumping and changing) What type of diffusion is this? McDonaldsization http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZqCe6n6r5o Relocation or Expansion? Language: Our verbal identity • The one cultural element least likely to change during your lifetime. 5 Major World Religions •Judaism (ethnic) •Hinduism (ethnic) •Buddhism (universal) •Christianity (universal) •Islam (universal) How maps can be deceiving