1. Bell Ringer What does the word “Culture” mean to you?
What is your culture? Where is your family originally from?

2. Patterns of Settlement

3. Why do people settle where they do?
Higher population where factors are better, lower where life is harder.
Climate – temperate, desert, tropical
Transportation Networks – rail, road, river, harbors
Resources – mining, agriculture, water supplies
Economics – ease of trade, nearby markets and customers

4. What are urban and rural?
urban - inside or part of a city
rural – outside of the city, out in the country

5. What is urbanization? Rise in the number of cities Result?
Rapid changes in lifestyle or culture

6. What is a city? politically organized region infrastructure
center of business and culture
innovation and technological advances
economic activity

7. PARTS OF THE CITY? Central Business District (CBD) = downtown areas
Suburbs – Developed areas around the CBD
Metropolitan Area- The city, its suburbs and surrounding areas
Megalopolis- Formed when several metropolitan areas grow together
Example?
Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington D.C. form the “BosWash Megalopolis”

8. Basics of Culture

9. What is Culture? How do we learn culture?
Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors
shared and passed on by a group.
How do we learn culture?
Learned from family, school, peers.
Learned from media, social institutions.

10. What are the 8 Traits of Culture?
Language
Religion (beliefs / morals / mores)
Food and Shelter (Types / Styles)
Education Systems
Security/Protection
Relationships – Family and Others
Political and Social Organizations
Creative Expression - Recreation

11. 1. Language Allows for communication to exist
Helps establish cultural identities
Oral tradition - Helps pass cultural traits along through generations
There are between 3,000 and 6,500 different languages spoken in the world today
Dialect – different versions of the same basic language

12. 2. Religion
The belief in a supernatural power or powers, responsible for the creation and maintenance of the universe
Major Types of Religions?
Monotheistic – belief in one god
Polytheistic – belief in many gods
Animistic or Traditional – belief in the forces of nature
Nontheistic – Supernatural, but no deities
Atheistic – No deities, no supernatural

13. 3. Food and Shelter – The places we live and the things we eat

14. 4. Education How culture is taught or learned
Formal – Schools, Universities, Religion (church)
In-Formal – Family, Friends, Social Clubs / Groups

15. 5. Security/Protection Military – National Govt. Police – Local Govt.
Family - Tribe

16. 6. Relationships – Family and Others
Friends
Classmates / Co-Workers

17. 7. Political and social organization
Government System
Make rules and laws to keep society in order
Clubs
Examples? Boys and Girls, Boy Scouts, FFA, Optimists,
Fraternal organizations
Kiwanis, University, Veterans, Masonic etc.

18. 8. Creative Expression - Recreation
Music
instruments, singing
Art
Paintings, sculpture, photography
Dance
Theater
Literature
Novels, Poems
Architecture
Sports
Outdoor activities
Hobbies

19. What is your culture?

20. Where do cultures start?
Cultural Hearth – where innovations, ideas, materials and technology begin

21. How do cultures change and spread?
Innovation – creating something new to meet a need.
Can you think of an example of this?
Diffusion – spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior
Can you think of an example of this?

22. How do cultures change and spread?
Assimilation – smaller society adopts the culture of a majority group
Can you think of an example of this?
Acculturation – society accepts or adopts an innovation
Can you think of an example of this?

23. The Columbian Exchange
The exchange of animals, plants, culture and human populations including slaves, communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres after 1492

24. What are these examples of?

25. How are cultural regions organized?
Society – a group that shares a geographic region, a sense of identity and a culture
Ethnic groups – a specific group within a society that shares a common language, customs, and heritage

26. What is the difference between race and ethnicity?
Race – physical - biological and physical differences; skin color, cranial size and shape, and hair type.
Ethnicity – social/mental - values, institutions, and patterns of behavior within a group

27. What is racism?
Racism - One group believes it is superior to another because of race
Ethnocentrism - belief that your ethnicity is superior to all others
Ethnic Stereotypes - Behaviors people believe to be true about all members of an ethnic group

28. In- Class Activity Checking on Stereotypes
On the index card, write down a stereotype that you have heard about yourself or someone you know. Do NOT put your name on it.
Give me the card, and I will shuffle it into the pile.
I will call a few people to draw cards and then read them aloud.
Tell the class how you think it would feel to be the person who was stereotyped like that.
What are some stereotypes that you have heard of?
Are they true, or are they generalizations?
Where do people learn stereotypes from?
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