1. What is Culture? What is a custom?
What examples could be used for El Paso?

2. 29 30 Culture Pyramid Elements of Culture Culture
Customs
Roles
Institutions
Religion
Rural v. Urban
Social Structure
Way of life of a group of people share beliefs and similar customs.
Things people usually do.
Based on rules for the proper behavior of individuals in particular positions and situations.
Organizations developed by each society to make social roles clear and to take care of social needs.
A set of beliefs about the meaning of life, the nature of the universe, and the existence of the supernatural
How people live together.
Rural = countryside Urban = City
People who share similar wealth, power, and prestige are said to belong to the same social class

3. Elements of Culture
Mrs. Duffy
September 4th

4. Culture
Way of life of a group of people share beliefs and similar customs.
Definition: Shared patterns of learned behavior that are passed on from generation to generation.

5. What is Culture? A people’s way of life, which includes:
Language, literature, art, and music
Beliefs including religion
Customs, including clothes, food, forms of shelter, and traditions
Institutions, including family, schools, and government.
Technology and material goods

6. What is Culture? Customs
Things people usually do.
Dress
Eat
Celebrate holidays
Turning points in life
Marriage
Parenthood
Death

7. What is Culture? Roles
Based on rules for the proper behavior of individuals in particular positions and situations.

8. What is Culture? Institutions
Organizations developed by each society to make social roles clear and to take care of social needs

9. What is Culture? Religion
A set of beliefs about the meaning of life, the nature of the universe, and the existence of the supernatural

10. What is Culture? Rural or Urban
How people live together.
Rural = countryside
Small huts
Simple cottages
farms
Urban = city
Buildings of steel, concrete, and glass
Hot and cold water
Sewage system
Internet

11. What is Culture? Social Structure
People who share similar wealth, power, and prestige are said to belong to the same social class

12. What is your culture?
Illustrate an example of each of the following terms. Religion Social structure Customs Role Institution Rural or Urban