APHuG Unit 3.1 Introduction to Culture

APHuG Unit 3.1 Introduction to Culture

by Brittni Beeson

Open Ended

Bell Ringer

1. What is your favorite song? Why is it your favorite song?

2. What was the last song you listened to? Where did you hear it?

​Objective/Objetivo

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I will be able to define the characteristics, attitudes, and traits that influence geographers when they study culture. Seré capaz de definir las características, actitudes y rasgos que influyen en los geógrafos cuando estudian cultura.

Open Ended

WHAT DOES THE WORD CULTURE MEAN TO YOU?

¿QUÉ SIGNIFICA LA PALABRA CULTURA PARA TI?

​Culture/Cultura

​Culture: customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together constitute the distinct tradition or lifestyle of a group of people or society.

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• Culture originates at the “hearth” or beginning place.

Folk and Popular Culture

• ​Folk or Local Culture: practiced primarily by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas.

• Places dominated by local culture change relatively little over time.

Folk and Popular Culture

• ​​Popular Culture: found in large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. 

•  Most often a product of developed countries, especially in N. America and Europe. 

​Local or Popular Culture?

​Local or Popular Culture?

​Local or Popular Culture?

Open Ended

1. List an example of folk/local culture. Tell me why this is an example of folk/local culture.

2. List an example of popular culture. Tell me why this is an example if popular culture.

​Material Culture

​Material Culture includes:

1. ​artifacts

2. ​sociofacts

3. ​mentifacts

​1. Artifacts

​Artifacts: the THINGS of material culture (houses, clothes, music, etc)

​2. Sociofacts

​Sociofacts: a rule, ritual, or custom that links people in CULTURE (family structure, religion, education, politics)

​3. Mentifacts

​Mentifacts:

the ELEMENTS of culture (language, beliefs, Local lore)

​EXIT TICKET:

Case Study: Moana & Polynesia

​Follow the directions and complete in Google Classroom.