Culture
The shared beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies of a society.
Culture
The spread of culture, cultural traits, or a cultural pattern
Cultural Diffusion
a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, etc.
Ethnicity
What are the 5 major world religions (name at least 3)
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
Hindu
Buddhism
A language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages.
Endangered language
Visible and invisible attributes that combine to make up a group’s culture.
Cultural Traits
- geographic origin of a culture or cultural trait
- Where a culture originates
Cultural Hearth
A person's sense of belonging to an ethnic group.
Ethnic identity
Universalizing or Ethnic?
Not confined to a specific location.
Missionary - attempt to convert people to join.
Examples: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism
Universalizing
A form of language that is specific to a region or social group.
Dialect / Accent
Visible, physical things people make that we assign meaning to
Examples: Clothing, weapons, and possessions
Artifact
A minority group adopts the cultural traits of a dominant culture
Assimilation
Characteristics that unify a country and provide stability.
Examples: Common language, ethnicity, religion
Centripetal forces
Universalizing or Ethnic?
Tied to a specific location and/or ethnic group.
Does NOT recruit new adherents.
Examples: Hinduism, Judaism, Shintoism, traditional religions
Ethnic
Largest group of related languages which are connected through a common, ancient ancestry and trace back to a common location.
Language Family
- The shared ideas, values, and beliefs of a culture
- Examples: Religion and language
Mentifact
- The dominance of one country over another country through diplomacy or force.
- promoting and forcing the cultural traits of a dominant society onto a less powerful society through force.
Imperialism
Characteristics that divide a country and create instability, conflict and violence.
Examples: Multiple competing ethnicities, languages or religions
Centrifugal forces
Universalizing or Ethnic?
- Widely diffused from the hearth through both expansion and relocation diffusion.
Universalizing
Collection of languages that share a common origin from thousands of years ago.
Language branch
How a culture organizes itself
It’s social structure
Examples: Tribes, states, political forms
Sociafact
A group modifies cultural traits of another culture, but maintains original culture
Acculturation
Centripetal Force or Centrifugal Force?
Northern Ireland has 3 competing religions
Centrifugal Force
Describe the relationship between Culture and Religion.
Religious beliefs can dictate how a person behaves, thinks, and acts
languages that share a more recent past with similar vocabularies and some overlap.
Language Group