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

10. 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.

11. Language
Needed to communicate

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

14. Major Religions
Judaism Christianity Islam Hinduism Buddhism Animism Sikhism

16. Technology
Urban vs. Rural
Modern vs. Traditional

17. Rural

18. Urban

19. Modern Technology

20. Traditional Technology

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

22. Schools

25. Hospital

26. Military

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

28. Cultural Hearth

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

31. Spain introduces Roman Catholicism into Mexico

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

33. Spreading European Languages

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

35. Cultural Divergence

36. Cultural Divergence

37. Cultural Divergence

38. (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

39. Spread of Christianity from Europe to America

40. Spanish introducing horses to America

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

42. Buddhism spreading into China

43. Islam spreading into Indonesia

44. Spreading European Languages