1. Elements of Culture Review
Social Organization
Customs and Traditions
Language
Arts & Literature
Religion
Forms of Government
Economic Systems
Teach values through products of human imagination
The cornerstone of culture
Using limited resources to satisfy wants and needs
Helps people answer questions about life
Teaches rules of behavior, like holidays & birthdays
Provides for the needs of the people
Basic unit is the family

2. How Cultures Change
Chapter 1 Key Issue 4

3. Where does it come from Baseball Ice Hockey Sushi Chop sticks Soccer
Japan
USA
England
China
Canada

4. Causes of Cultural Change
Discoveries, inventions, and changes to the environment
Technology – the skills and tools a people use
Earliest people made the earliest tools
Arrows out of stones or bones
Wheels out of wood or rock
People continued to develop technology over time
Stones, bronze, iron, alloys – all have been used for weapons
Carts, chariots, buggies, cars – all have been used for transportation
Rock paintings, carvings, writing, internet – have all been used for communication
Technology changes faster today than it has in the past

5. Causes of Cultural Change
Changing Environment
Native Americans used the buffalo for all their needs
Clothing
Homes
Weapons
When Europeans/Americans moved west, Native Americans needed to change their lifestyle
Similar changes are happening in the Arctic, Amazon, and Deserts across the world

6. Causes of Cultural Change
New Ideas
Conservation/Recycling – the health of the earth has changed how people deal with garbage
Civil Rights – Legal ideas have evolved to include more and more groups throughout the 20th and 21st centuries

7. Diffusion – the movement of customs or ideas from one place to another
People – Migration – by foot, animals, boats, planes
Music – American music today combines ideas
Classical music in Europe
African songs
the blues
urban areas
rock and roll
Diffusion occurs in two major ways
Peaceful – people share
War – people enforce their ideas on others

8. Tradition and Change
Many people battle today to keep traditions while adopting changes at the same time
The biggest changes in technology change how people access information
Newspapers, radios, tvs, smart phones – all ways to share information
Older people tend to resist change
Younger people tend to accept change

9. Understanding other Cultures
Because people are more connected now than ever before, they need to understand how other cultures live
Ethnocentrism – judging other cultures by your own standards. You believe you are right and they are wrong
Racism – the belief that one racial group is naturally superior to another