1. What do you consider culture?
Unit 2 - Culture
What do you consider culture?

2. Outcomes 2.1 demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture
Describe various elements of culture (e.g., symbols, language, norms, and values).
Investigate various theoretical perspectives and viewpoints that attempt to explain culture (e.g., structural functionalism, conflict, symbolic interactionism, feminism and post-modern) as well as cultural materialism and sociobiology.
Apply these theoretical perspectives to given cultural scenarios.
Evaluate influences that shape their cultural identity.

3. Outcomes 2.2 analyze factors related to cultural variation
Examine factors that contribute to cultural variation.
Investigate the role of ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, and dominant culture in cultural variation.
Compare pluralism to multiculturalism in a Canadian context.
Investigate the existence of subcultures and countercultures in Canadian society.

4. Outcomes 2.3 analyze factors related to cultural uniformity
Examine factors that contribute to cultural uniformity.
Investigate the role of popular culture in fostering cultural uniformity.
Formulate a hypothesis regarding the beneficial and/or detrimental effects of cultural assimilation.
Compare the attributes of cultural uniformity with those of cultural variation.
Examine the concepts of “dominant culture” and “multiculturalism” within the context of Canadian Society.

5. Outcomes 2.4 investigate the process of cultural change
Analyze factors that contribute to the process of cultural change.
Describe the role of cultural lag and cultural diffusion in the process of cultural change.
Assess society’s response to the process of cultural change.
Evaluate the beneficial and detrimental effects of cultural change.

6. WHY IS THIS THING SO HARD TO DEFINE?
So, What is Culture?
WHY IS THIS THING SO HARD TO DEFINE?

7. What is Culture? Please put this in your notes!
Culture is the combined thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs of a group of people who tend to live in the same geographic area.
Although cultures begin within specific geographic locations, they can spread across the globe due to voluntary or forced migration.
Culture is expressed through a variety of methods including dress, language, religion, and food.

8. Cultural Expression Tower
Food
Geography
Language
Religion
Dress
Architecture

9. My Cultural Expression Tower
Homemade bread and tea
Rocks and ocean
Whur ya to?
Lapsed Catholic
Skirts, dresses, t-shirts
Old, small houses
(now apt.)

10. Cultural Stereotypes Cultural Stereotypes, or National Character?
Are generalizations about national groups just caricatures?

12. How can stereotypes be harmful?

13. “I am…” Poem
An “I am…” poem is a poem that is all about you and the things that you are.
This particular “I am…” poem is going to be about your cultural identity.
Using the starter “I am…” finish the sentence with something that describes you in terms of your culture, how you define yourself.

14. My “I am…” Poem I am an older sister I am from I.A.M, Newfoundland
I am fish and brewis, molasses buns, and baloney stew
I am losing my accent
I am Terry’s young maid
I am a terrible Roman Catholic
I am brightly painted wooden houses and dories
I am skirts and cardigans
I am great music, funny TV, and hilariously terrible movies
I am a 3.97 GPA in my last two semesters of my undergrad
I am not getting enough sleep. Ever.

15. Now it’s your turn!
Get something to write on and something to write with and create your own “I am…” poem.
Be sure to think about the tower of cultural expression (but feel free to write about what you feel is culturally relevant to you) :
Food
Geography
Language
Religion
Dress
Architecture
8-10 lines, no more than 15 please!
Be prepared to share! I won’t force anyone but participation is an expectation! 
This is formative, so I will be collecting these.