Definitions
Families and Societies
Language & Religion
Art & Architecture
Cultural Diffusion & Change
100


The beliefs, customs, practices and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people


What is culture?

100

A group of people with a shared culture who have organized themselves to meet their basic needs.

What is a society?

100

Can answer questions about the meaning of life and guide people in matters of ethics and acceptable behavior

 What is religion and how can it help and guide people?

100

Design and construction of buildings

What is architecture?

100

The spread of cultural traits from one culture to another.

 What is cultural diffusion?

200

Language, laws, religion, values, food, clothing and other customs

What are examples of cultural traits?

200

India and China

What are examples of a huge society?

200

Synagogue



What is the Jews place of worship?

200

Paintings, sculptures, & photographs

What is the visual arts?

200

Objects, ideas, and values, food, religious beliefs, languages, music, other cultural traits

What are some of the things spread by cultural diffusion?

300

parents, other adults (teachers and other relatives), mass media, organizations they belong to

What are examples of where children learn cultural traits?

300

What is the most basic unit of any society?

Who is part of a nuclear family?

What is a family?

What are parents and their children

300

Jews, Christians, and Muslims

What are three major religious groups that believe in one God?

300

Sound using instruments and voices

What is music?

300

Traders, immigrants, soldiers

 What are three groups that help cultural diffusion?

400

NORM

What are the common culture traits of a group of people called? 

400

A pattern of organized relationships among groups of people within a society.

Schools, sports teams, any other groups, your workplace, church/synagogue/temple.



What is a social structure?

What are some examples of social structures and groups?

400

English

What is a common “third language” that many people use to communicate with today?

400


Pablo Picasso, the Beatles, and William Shakespeare


What are three examples of great works of art in the textbook?

400

Useful ideas spread and those changes improve lives

What are the positives of cultural diffusion?

500

Build different houses, settlements, and plant different crops

What are three things that people of different cultures do differently based on their geography?

500

A group of people living in similar economic conditions.

Spoken sounds, written symbols, hand gestures



What is a social class?

 What are three examples of language?

500

Wealthy, highly educated investor

What is an example of the upper social classe in the modern United States.

500

Fiction, poetry, or drama

What is literature?

500

People can feel threatened by quick changes. New global culture can threaten diversity.

What are the negatives of cultural diffusion?

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