UNIT 3 LESSON 3

THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO…

Understand the role of cultural traits, cultural hearths, diffusion and the role of traits culturally integrated.

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”

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

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

DIFFUSION OF CHRISTIANITY CONT…

Contagious Diffusion Aided by limited barriers in the Roman EmpireAided by the lingua franca of Latin of RomeDistance decay influenced its influenceBarriers later influenced it; Islam

INNOVATION

Christianity has multiple variationsRoman CatholicBaptistLutheran

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.

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 eatBread is eatenChurches house

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

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 himselfPassed down through sociological sub-system