1. Why Does Culture Change? 1.9
NL Studies 2205

2. Introduction Culture is always changing and evolving
Changes have occurred due to the influence of ideas & innovations that have spread worldwide through communication & transportation systems
Time – space compression: interactions between cultures occur more often & change happens more frequently than ever before

3. Why does Culture Change?
There are three general ways that culture changes:
Innovation
Diffusion
Large-scale interactions

4. 1. Innovation
Refers to the emergence of new ideas, objects, or techniques
Sometimes it involves a new way of using an existing object
Sometimes it represents the creation of something entirely new
Occurs in response to a need or want

5. 1. Innovation
Cultural Hearth: used to describe the location where an innovation first appeared before it spread to other areas
The cod net is an example of an innovation that impacted culture of our province. (One ‘haul’ of a fleet of cod nets could yield as much as a single fisher without nets might harvest in a single year)

6. 2. Diffusion
This type of change occurs when an idea, object, or technique is introduced to a culture from an external source
When a person travels to a different area & returns with the innovation or when someone with a different cultural background moves into an area
Also describes the process of an innovation spreading within a particular culture

7. 2. Diffusion
A negative example of diffusion is the spread of the Spanish Flu in
This disease, which killed over 600 people in our province arrived here from Europe on cargo ships
The effects were particularly devastating in Labrador where the disease killed 1/3 of the Inuit population & forced some communities out of existence

8. 3. Large-scale Interactions
When two cultures interact, their respective cultures will be altered (change may vary)
Acculturation: describes the experiences of one culture dominating another culture (radical change occurs to the minority culture)….Residential Schools in Canada.
Transculturation: When two cultures interact and there is a relatively equal change in both groups