Definitions
The beliefs, customs, practices and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people
What is culture?
A group of people with a shared culture who have organized themselves to meet their basic needs.
What is a society?
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?
Design and construction of buildings
What is architecture?
The spread of cultural traits from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
Language, laws, religion, values, food, clothing and other customs
What are examples of cultural traits?
India and China
What are examples of a huge society?
Synagogue
What is the Jews place of worship?
Paintings, sculptures, & photographs
What is the visual arts?
Objects, ideas, and values, food, religious beliefs, languages, music, other cultural traits
What are some of the things spread by cultural diffusion?
parents, other adults (teachers and other relatives), mass media, organizations they belong to
What are examples of where children learn cultural traits?
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
Jews, Christians, and Muslims
What are three major religious groups that believe in one God?
Sound using instruments and voices
What is music?
Traders, immigrants, soldiers
What are three groups that help cultural diffusion?
NORM
What are the common culture traits of a group of people called?
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?
English
What is a common “third language” that many people use to communicate with today?
Pablo Picasso, the Beatles, and William Shakespeare
What are three examples of great works of art in the textbook?
Useful ideas spread and those changes improve lives
What are the positives of cultural diffusion?
Build different houses, settlements, and plant different crops
What are three things that people of different cultures do differently based on their geography?
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?
Wealthy, highly educated investor
What is an example of the upper social classe in the modern United States.
Fiction, poetry, or drama
What is literature?
People can feel threatened by quick changes. New global culture can threaten diversity.
What are the negatives of cultural diffusion?