1. AP Human Geography Day 22

2. Starter
Look at your test and see what you missed. Make a list of the questions/topics that you would like me to go over.
Write those down on your starter sheet so you don’t forget.

3. Overview of Culture
CONCEPTS OF CULTURE– What is it? What are cultural traits?
How to analyze maps to determine variations in culture?
How modern technology and communication shapes culture and how it spreads
Culture varies by place and region
TYPES OF CULTURE
Folk Culture
Pop Culture
PARTS OF CULTURE
Language: language tree, dialects
Religion: Major world religions and how they diffuse
Ethnic vs Universalizing
Ethnicity
Gender norms
DIFFUSION
Expansion, Relocation
Acculturation, assimilation, multiculturalism
How history has diffused culture

4. To-Do Reading Guide 3 Due Tuesday (10/31)
Europe Map Quiz Thursday (11/3)

5. Concepts of culture
Definition of culture: shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behavior transmitted by a society
Cultural traits: individual elements of culture (food preferences, architecture, and land use)
Maps analyze and assess language, religion, ethnicity, and gender
Communication technologies such as the Internet reshape and accelerate interactions

6. Diffusion of culture and cultural traits
Expansion: Contagious, hierarchical, stimulus
Relocation
Acculturation, assimilation, multiculturalism
Cultural hearths
Lingua franca
Colonialism, imperialism, trade shape patterns and practices of culture

7. How do cultural traits spread?
Diffusion!

8. Diffusion Expansion: feature spreads through “snowballing”
Hierarchical: spread from high up the chain and then down to lower
Contagious: rapid and widespread throughout a population
Stimulus: part of it spreads (underlying principle of a characteristic spreads although characteristic failed)
Relocation: idea spreads through physical movement from one place to another

9. Globalization
The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact.
Doesn’t matter on state and international boundaries

10. 5 Hearths of Ancient Civilizations
Nile River
Mesopotamia
Indus River Valley
(Huang He) Yellow River Valley
Mesoamerica

12. Spread by History
COLONIALISM: the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
Going to someplace else and making a settlement
IMPERIALISM: a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
Typically done by means of extracting resources, not so much about sending people there
TRADE

13. Acculturation: The culture change that comes from blending cultures
Essential Vocabulary
Assimilation: The process by which a person’s or group’s culture to resembled those of another group.
Loss of cultural traits
Ex: Native Americans
Acculturation: The culture change that comes from blending cultures

14. Assimilation

15. Essential Vocabulary cont.
Multiculturalism: The presence of several distinct cultural and/or ethnic groups within a society.
Syncretism:  the combining of different, often contradictory beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought.
Ex: Voodoo, combo of Catholic and Caribbean