Culture

1. Culture By: Kerrigan Molland Matt Panzica

2. Culture • Def- culture is a shared set of meanings that are lived through material and symbolic practices of everyday life • Pop culture • Folk culture

3. Folk culture characteristics • Smaller region and smaller groups of people • Resistance to change • Usually spreads through diffusion • Usually have anonymous hearths

4. Pop culture characteristics • Found in large heterogeneous societies • Diffuses rapidly (hierarchal) • Spreads through expansion diffusion • Often destroys folk cultures • Hearths in us include Hollywood, and NYC

5. Folk Music • Usually unidentified • Transmitted orally • Tell a story or convey information about daily activities and life-cycle events • Pop music • Music invented in china in 2697 B.C

6. Pop music • Takes technological skill • Performed in studio with equipment • English became international language for popular music • Spread rapidly during WWll

7. Soccer • Early soccer games resembled mob scenes • King Henry ll banned soccer until 1603 when king James legalized it • Clubs founded in 1800’s in Britain • World soccer originated after 1863 • Late 1800’s soccer is exported around the world • First US college game in 1869 called a football game

8. Physical environment • Environmental conditions can limit the variety of human actions anywhere • Necessities food and shelter • Demonstrate the influence of cultural values and environment on the development of unique folk culture

9. FOOD • Folk food habits are embedded especially strong in the environment • People adapt their food preferences to conditions in the environment • Food customs affected by availability of products • People refuse to eat particular plants or animals that are thought to embody negative forces in the environment

10. Food taboos • Judaism • Animals that have cloven feet • Fish lacking fins and scales • Islam • Pork (pigs unsuited for dry land of arabian peninsula) • Hinduism • Cows (environment)

11. housing • Form of houses might reflect religious values, environmental, and social conditions • Building materials is influenced both by social factors and what is available in the environment • Most common materials are woods and brick

12. Sacred places • Java • Fiji • Madagascar • Thailand • Laos

13. Layers of a culture • Culture traits- a single attribute of a culture • Culture complex- combination of culture traits creates a unique set of traits • Culture systems- culture complex sharing particular traits, turn into culture systems • Culture regions- region that includes places and people with similarities in their culture systems • Culture realms- formed by fusing culture regions that have enough in common to be merged

14. Diffusions • Expansion- spreads outwards to new places but is still strong in hearth • Stimulus- diffuses from hearth but original idea is changed • Hierarchal- idea spreads from a place or person of power • Contagious- people near origin become adapters • Relocation- movement of the original adapters form their hearth to a new place • Migrant- innovation spreads and lasts only a brief time in the newly adopted place

15. TorstenHagerstrand • Theorized that innovations of all kinds tend to diffuse from their hearths in stages • 1st stage – gain acceptance in place of origin • 2nd stage – begin to spread rapidly outward from region • 3rd stage - slowing and reaching maximum dispersal and saturation