1. UNIT 3 LESSON 3

2. THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO…  Understand the role of cultural traits, cultural hearths, diffusion and the role of traits culturally integrated.

3. PROJECT REVISITED:  Cultural Trait: “a single distinguishing feature of a regular occurrence with in a culture” (Foulberg) or “building blocks of the complex behavioral patterns” (Getis)  Example: “Christianity”

4. ORIGINS OF TRAIT  Cultural Hearth: “A nuclear area within which an advanced and distinctive set of culture traits develops and from which there is diffusion of distinctive technologies and ways of life” (Getis)  Example: Christianity originated in Jerusalem with Jesus

5. DIFFUSION OF CHRISTIANITY  Spatial Diffusion: “process by which a concept, practice, or substance spreads from its point of origin to new territories” (Getis p. 269).  Hierarchical Diffusion: “spread of innovation up or down a hierarchy of places” (Getis p. 271)  Contagious Diffusion “innovation continues to spread until barriers are met” (Getis 270).  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwp7oDLEFf8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwp7oDLEFf8

6. DIFFUSION OF CHRISTIANITY CONT…  Contagious Diffusion  Aided by limited barriers in the Roman Empire  Aided by the lingua franca of Latin of Rome  Distance decay influenced its influence  Barriers later influenced it; Islam

7. INNOVATION  Christianity has multiple variations  Roman Catholic  Baptist  Lutheran  Innovation: “Introduction into an area of new ideas, practices, or objects; an alteration of custom or culture that originates within the social group itself”  Example: Anglican Church has at it’s head the King/Queen of England.

8. CULTURALLY INTEGRATED  Technological sub-system: “material objects and the techniques of their use by means of which people are able to live” (Getis 214)  Artifacts of Christianity: Fish, bread, churches.  Fish function to eat  Bread is eaten  Churches house 

9. CULTURAL INTEGRATION CONT.  Sociological Subsystem: “the sum of those expected and accepted patterns of interpersonal relations that find their outlet in economic, political, military, etc. associations” (Getis 215)  Sociofacts include going to church, identifying as Christian, and various types of involvement in the church community. How people dress going to church or the clergy dresses  Born Christian, more than likely going to be raised Christian  Sunday’s are a religious holiday

10. IDEOLOGICAL INTEGRATION  Ideological Subsystem: “ideas, beliefs, and knowledge of a culture and of the ways in which they are expressed in speech or other forms of communication” (Getis 215).  Metifacts include: the Bible, Pope (Catholics), clergy’s role with community/God (in some sects), the belief in Jesus himself  Passed down through sociological sub-system