1. What is culture?
The word culture, with its Latin root meaning "to cultivate“.
How are culture and cultivation alike?

2. What is culture?
Culture –Beliefs, customs, practices, and behaviors of a particular nation or group of people
Cultural Trait – an idea of doing things that is common in a certain culture: ex. Language, values, food, clothing, religion
(Fast Write) How do we learn cultural traits?
(Fast Write) Can cultural traits change over time?

3. What is culture?
Elements “passed on from generation to generation by learning”. Examples:
values
norms
institutions
Artifacts

4. Values Values are ideas about what in life seems important.
(Fast write) Can you think of examples of values that we have in our society?

5. Norms
Norms are a set of expectations of how people will behave in various situations.
(Fast write) What are the norms in the United states? In school, for example, how are you expected to behave?

6. Institutions
Institutions are the structures of a society within which values and norms are transmitted.
Examples: school, family, clubs
Fast write) What institution do you go to daily or weekly? What values and social norms do you show? How are these values and norms taught to you?

7. Artifacts
Artifacts—things, or aspects of material culture derive from a culture's values and norms.
(Fast write) What artifacts in your life describe you?

8. What are culture regions?
Culture Regions – places where people share cultural traits such as language or religion
Culture regions can cover an entire country
A country might also have many different cultural regions
Ex. French Canadian culture in Quebec, Canada
Culture regions can also cover more than one country
Ex. People who practice Christianity
Cultural Hearth is the place where cultural traits develop

9. How do cultural traits spread?
Cultural Diffusion – the spread of cultural traits from one culture to another
Ex. In the 1500s, Spanish explorers brought horses to America from Europe
Tomatoes were brought to Europe from the Americas
Jeans became popular in America and then spread to Asia and Europe
Diversity – cultural variety
(Fast Write) Why do we adopt parts of other cultures?
(Fast Write) How is culture spread? Who spreads culture?

10. Day 2 – The End