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How Culture Changes

How Culture Changes. How Does Culture Change? . Four factors: Environmental changes – anything in the environment that can cause culture to change such as weather, access to resources, land development, etc.

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How Culture Changes

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  1. How Culture Changes

  2. How Does Culture Change? • Four factors: • Environmental changes – anything in the environment that can cause culture to change such as weather, access to resources, land development, etc. • New ideas – ideas can spark cultural change. These can be political, religious, economical, technological, entertainment, etc. • Technology – any kind of technological advance that changed culture, past or present. • Diffusion – the movement of materials and ideas from one culture to another. Influenced by migration, communication, trade and commerce.

  3. Environmental Changes

  4. Environmental Changes

  5. Environmental Change

  6. Environmental Change

  7. New Ideas

  8. New ideas

  9. Technology • Cell phones – ideas spread faster • Vehicles – spread culture • Computers – spread religion, music, change peoples dress • Electric cooking • Medical advances – helps spread medicine, make new medicine, changed ideas about medicine • Guns • Office supplies • Farming equipment • Cameras • television – dress, speak, act • Internet

  10. technology

  11. Diffusion

  12. Diffusion

  13. Globalization • Globalization is the process of expanding social and economic relations across world-space. • Global Community -  the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent.

  14. globalization

  15. Globalization

  16. What do you think? • Some people define ‘Globalization’ as “compressing the world into one to which everyone belongs regardless of national boundary, race, gender, religion, etc.” • Do you agree? Why? • Of the factors for cultural change we’ve talked about today, which one do you believe is most influential? Why?

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