Unit 3 Lesson: Refresh

1. Unit 3 Lesson: Refresh

2. Culture • Culture is comprised of the shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by society. • Culture includes food preferences, architecture, and land use. • Elements of culture that we have looked at and will look at include: Ideas surrounding practices, ethnicity, gender, language, and religion. • It’s important to be SPECIFIC when you are talking about culture  that’s a broad term, so you need to break down the aspects of culture. • When in doubt, think about the chapters; folk vs. pop, race/ethnicity & gender, language, and religion

3. Culture & Globalization • Globalization is influencing cultural interactions & change • Communication (the internet) are reshaping and accelerating interactions among people and places and actually changing cultural practices. • Cultural has a hearth, and then diffuses outwards from that hearth in different ways • It should also be clear that cultural patterns & process vary by place and region. • The use of language, religion, and ethnicity create a sense of place • We can represent language, ethnicity, and religion on maps • Things like ethnicity and gender; where they are on a map and even language, reflect the cultural attitudes towards certain groups

4. Culture is seen in the Physical • Language, religion, ethnicity, and gender all play a role in understanding landscapes that are symbolic of the culture (signs, architecture, and sacred sites we’ll learn about those). • Culture landscapes are amalgamations (composites) of physical features, agricultural and industrial practices, religious and linguistic characteristics, and other expressions of culture  like architecture • Think about cemeteries; not everyone has the same type of burial practice • Think about the language and symbols used on signs, buildings, etc. • Think about how Indigenous populations may view the land vs. European settlers

5. Religion • Religion are “belief systems and sets of practices that incorporate the ideas of a power higher than humans.” • You’ll find that religion will often influence how genders are viewed/treated • Plays a role in a lot of governments • Language plays a strong role in religion; usually belief system sacred book/text out of a specific language • If not written language, verbal, signs, or pictures usually a way of communicating the religion • Organized Religions are “when belief systems and associated rituals are systematically arranged and formally established” • We’ll spend more time on organized religions in this class.

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9mFNgu6Cww (4 minutes)

7. Major Religions • We use the term “major” based on the number of adherents • Major religions often have many off-shots • Example: Christianity has Catholicism, Greek Orthodox, Baptist. • Example: Islam has Shi’a and Shi’ite. • Major religions by numbers: • Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism • Judaism comes up a lot as well. It’s what called an Abrahamic religion, that’s the founder (Abraham). Christianity and Islam have the same roots in Judaism • Hinduism is the oldest religion, Buddhism emerged out of Hinduism • As an aside, a Muslim is a practitioner of Islam.

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6dCxo7t_aE (11 minutes)

9. Explore… • Go this website: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-five-major-world-religions-john-bellaimey#watch • Or Google: “John Bellaimey” Ted Lesson Religion  use the quotation marks. • Don’t go to the Youtube video, go to the one that is ed.ted.com • Just play around in it. If you click on “Think” you can take a quiz, but you have to register for the site (Free) • If you click on “Dig Deeper” and want to see Hindu comics, it’s easier to just google: Krishna Comics • Just read and google stuff around the “Dig Deeper” area of website