1. The Study of Human Geography

2. What is Culture?
The beliefs and actions that define a group of people’s way of life

3. Culture Customs / Beliefs Language Religion Technology
Institutions / Government

4. Reflect the values of a society
Customs / Beliefs
(Lead to Traditions)
Reflect the values of a society

9. Family Structure Parents may live with just their children.
Other places parents, children, and extended family live together.
Gender Roles:
Roles specifically assigned to men and women.
Changing Gender Roles:
Women in America have seen many changes
Traditional Roles
Many countries in the world maintain traditional roles for women.

10. Language
Needed to communicate

12. Religion Set of beliefs about the meaning of life and the supernatural
Customs and practices deal with those beliefs

13. Major Religions
Judaism Christianity Islam Hinduism Buddhism Animism Sikhism

15. Technology
Urban vs. Rural
Modern vs. Traditional

16. Rural

17. Urban

18. Modern Technology

19. Traditional Technology

20. Institutions / Governments
Institution –take care of social needs
Government –protect from outsiders and regulate behavior

21. Schools

22. Hospital

23. Military

24. Point of origin of a cultural trait
Cultural Hearth
Point of origin of a cultural trait

25. Cultural Hearth

26. The contact and interaction of one culture with another
Cultural Convergence
The contact and interaction of one culture with another

28. Spain introduces Roman Catholicism into Mexico

29. Mexican American culture introduces Roman Catholicism to the Southwest US

30. Spreading European Languages

31. restriction of a culture from outside influences
Cultural Divergence
restriction of a culture from outside influences

32. Cultural Divergence

33. Cultural Divergence

34. Cultural Divergence

35. (also known as spatial diffusion)
Cultural Diffusion
(also known as spatial diffusion)
a cultural element is transmitted across some distance from one group or individual to another

36. Spread of Christianity from Europe to America

37. Spanish introducing horses to America

38. Movies made in America going to the rest of the world

39. Buddhism spreading into China

40. Islam spreading into Indonesia

41. Spreading European Languages