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Culture and Society Mrs. Ashford Contemporary Issues Spring Semester
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Bellwork Question What do you know about depression? Why do you feel most people do not talk about the impact of mental illness in this society? What is the stigma to mental illness?
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Bellwork-Culture Gallery Walk Students will get into groups of 5 and share out what are the common stereotypes of each group. Groups will rotate and continue until all groups has completed all groups.
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World Migration Africa Asia Australia Western Europe Eastern Europe North America South America
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What is a Society? Mrs. Ashford U.S. Government Spring Semester
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Society Group of people with shared territory, interaction and culture. Made up by friendship or common interest Groups of two or more people
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Pluralistic Society United States is pluralistic Composed of many different kinds of people Members retain some ethnic traditions and beliefs from their old society
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Types of Societies Hunting and gathering Horticultural-hand tools to raise crops Pastoral-domestication & breeding of animals Agricultural/agrarian-raise crops by the plow Industrial –machines replace humans Postindustrial- economy based on services & technology than production
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Term Assimilation In order to fit into their new society, however, members must give up some of these original traditions.
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WHAT IS A CULTURE? Mrs. Ashford U.S. Government
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Culture Everything made, learned, or shared by the members of a society
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Types of Culture Material-physical things Example-food, clothing, jewelry, etc. Nonmaterial-beliefs and values Example-thinness as a standard of beauty
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Levels of Culture Dominant-held by majority Subculture-within the dominant Counterculture-opposes the dominant
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Terms Ethnocentrism View other cultures by the standards of one’s own culture. Consider their culture superior to other cultures.
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Cultural Relativism Interpreting other cultures based on one’s culture
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Culture Shock Practices of other cultures seem unfamiliar, scary or shocking.
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Cultural Diffusion Item of culture spreads throughout a culture or from one culture to another.
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Quick Quiz 1.Society is (A) a political entity (B) the same as culture or nation (C) limited by geographical boundaries (D) organized interaction of people sharing land and culture
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2. Culture includes (A) only material things such as cars or jewelry (B) our thoughts, our beliefs, and our possessions (C) the land we share (D) only nonmaterial things such as values or beliefs
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3. Which of the following types of societies came first? (A) industrial (B) agricultural (C) mass (D) horticultural and pastoral
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Place migration of world population in order.
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