1. Seven Elements of Culture

3. 7 Elements of Culture Define it Explain it in your own words
Social Organization
Customs and Traditions
Language
Arts & Literature
Religion
Forms of Government
Economic Systems
Define it
Explain it in your own words
Why is it important?
Examples – 3 Minimum

6. Social Organization

7. Framework of society

8. Social Organization
1. Families: The building blocks of society

9. Two types of family: -nuclear -extended

10. Social Organization 1. Families
a. Nuclear Family: “the immediate family”
Contains only parents and children

14. Social Organization 1. Families a. Nuclear Family
b. Extended Family: The nuclear family and other relatives living under the same roof or in close proximity.

16. c. Patriarchal: Family dominated by the eldest male
c. Patriarchal: Family dominated by the eldest male. Matriarchal: Family dominated by female

17. d. Monogamy: Only one spouse. Polygamy: More than one spouse.

18. Many cultures have arranged marriages.

19. A. Social Organization 1. Families
2. Social Classes: Some people have greater status than others. Why?

21. B. Customs: How are people expected to behave in social situations?
                    

26. C. Language: How do people communicate with each other?

28. 1. Dialect: a variety of a language

29. D. Arts: How do people order things
D. Arts: How do people order things? (Space, ideas, sounds, materials, etc.)

30. Dance

31. Theater

32. Literature

33. Music

34. Ceramics

35. Sculpture

36. Architecture

37. Painting & Drawing

38. Aesthetics: the study of beauty

44. E. Religion

45. Three questions of religion: 1. Where did we come from?

49. 2. How should we live our lives? 3. Where do we go when we die?

51. 1 3
Cyclical 2 2 1 3
Linear

52. Cosmology: The study and explanation of the universe

53. Theology: A system of religious beliefs

54. Doctrine: Ideas taught as truth

55. Monotheism: Belief in one god Polytheism: Belief in many gods

56. Animism: The belief that spirits inhabit nature

57. Proselytize: to try to convert somebody to a religious faith

58. Missionary: Someone who proselytizes Proselyte: Someone who converted

59. Missionary religions contain a doctrine that all people should believe according to their doctrine.

60. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

61. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. -Jesus Matthew 28: 19-20

62. Sect: A religious group, division, “branch” or faction

63. F. Government: How do people make decisions for the group/society?

67. G. Economic Systems: the use of limited resources.

68. Economic Systems: How do people get their food/water, clothing, and shelter?

70. Economic Systems
Traditional
Market
Command
Mixed

71. How Do Cultures Change Page 19
List of 10 things that have changed in the last 10 years
List of 10 things that will change in the next 10 years

72. How Cultures Change Causes of Cultural Change
Technology – the skills and tools people use
Stone, bone, bronze, iron
Smoke signal, telegraph, telephone, face time
Other examples
Changing Environment – the way we use resources around us
Native Americans use of buffalo & European/American expansion westward

73. How Cultures Change Causes of Cultural Change cont.
New Ideas
Environmental awareness & recycling
Other examples
Diffusion – the movement of customs or ideas from one place to another
Ideas
People
Music, Art, & Athletics

74. Rate of Change Slow change for thousands of years Why?
Increased rates of change in last 200 years
“The good old days”

75. Understanding Change
Ethnocentrism – to judge other cultures by the standards of your own culture
Examples
Racism – the belief that one racial group is naturally superior to another

76. Elements of Culture Quiz
Social Organization
Customs and Traditions
Language
Arts & Literature
Religion
Forms of Government
Economic Systems
Teach values through products of human imagination
The cornerstone of culture
Using limited resources to satisfy wants and needs
Helps people answer questions about life
Teaches rules of behavior, like holidays & birthdays
Provides for the needs of the people
Basic unit is the family