culture

How does culture spread?

• Language

• Government and economy

• War, trade, colonization and immigration

What happens when a culture is isolated from other cultures?

• Changes in lifestyle occur quickly.

• There is a plethora of technology.

• Changes in lifestyle occur slowly.

• There is a large foreign born population (immigrants).

What is a culture trait?

• Items that all social organizations have.

• Hair color

• Items that are specific to a group of people.

• Eye color

Basic human needs such as food, clothing, sports, education, festivals etc. passed down from one generation to the next.

• Customs and traditions

• Government

• Language

• Social Organizations

Two important features of a culture are

• economy and climate

• natural resources and climate

• language and religious beliefs

• weather and writing

People's occupations, their behavior, and their beliefs are a part of their

• culture

• technology

• government

• climate

The parts of a people's environment that they have shaped

• acculturation

• cultural landscape

• cultural diffusion

• culture shock

An example of material culture is

• idea of Democracy

• baseball hat

• Christianity

• societies values on education

Spreading cultural traits from one group to another is?

• Multiculturism

• Cultural Diffusion

• Culture

• Pluralism

Elements of culture shared by a culture; ex: holidays, language, special foods, & religion

• culture trait
• culture region
• multicultural
• globalization