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What is Culture? How a society lives and organizes itself.

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Page 1: What is Culture? How a society lives and organizes itself

What is Culture?

How a society lives and organizes itself.

Page 2: What is Culture? How a society lives and organizes itself

6 ASPECTS OF CULTURE1) Social organization2) Social norms3) Learning & technology4) Arts5) Spiritual beliefs & religion6) Language & symbols

Page 3: What is Culture? How a society lives and organizes itself

Cultural Diffusion• The interaction of different cultures with each

other (exchange of customs, traditions, etc.)• Direct diffusion– Direct contact (close proximity, trade,

intermarriage, warfare)• Hockey from Canada to U.S.

– Forced = through conquest (i.e. Conquistadors in New World enforced Christianity)

• Indirect diffusion– Spread through middleman or third culture

• Media such as TV, Internet spread culture w/out direct contact

Page 4: What is Culture? How a society lives and organizes itself

Effects of Cultural Interaction

• Positives?– Innovations, New ideas– Spread of literacy, education– Understanding & appreciation

• Negatives?– Ethnocentrism & ethnic conflict– Discrimination– racism & racial conflict– Loss of a culture/language – Cultural leveling? World culture?