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Seven Elements of Culture. 7 Elements of Culture. 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. Social Organization. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Seven Element
s of Culture
7 Elements of Culture
1. Social Organization
2. Customs and Traditions
3. Language
4. Arts & Literature
5. Religion
6. Forms of Government
7. Economic Systems
•Define it
•Explain it in your own words
•Why is it important?
•Examples – 3 Minimum
A.SocialOrganization
Framework of society
Social Organization
1. Families: The building blocks of society
Two types of family:
-nuclear-extended
Social Organization• 1. Families
–a. Nuclear Family: “the immediate family”
Contains only parents and children
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.
c. Patriarchal: Family dominated by the eldest male.Matriarchal: Family dominated by female
d. Monogamy: Only one spouse.
Polygamy: More than one spouse.
Many cultures have arranged
marriages.
A. Social Organization• 1. Families
• 2. Social Classes: Some people have greater status than others. Why?
B. Customs: How are people
expected to behave in social
situations?
C. Language: How do people
communicate with each
other?
1. Dialect: a variety of a language
D. Arts: How do people order
things? (Space, ideas, sounds, materials, etc.)
Theater
Literature
Music
Ceramics
Sculpture
Architecture
Painting & Drawing
Aesthetics: the study of
beauty
E. Religion
Three questions of religion:
1. Where did we come from?
2. How should we live our lives?
3. Where do we go when we die?
Cosmology: The study and explanation of the universe
Theology: A system of religious beliefs
Doctrine: Ideas taught
as truth
Monotheism: Belief in one god
Polytheism: Belief in many gods
Animism: The belief that spirits
inhabit nature
Proselytize: to try to convert somebody to a religious faith
Missionary: Someone who proselytizes
Proselyte: Someone who converted
Missionary religions contain a doctrine
that all people should believe
according to their doctrine.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
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. -JesusMatthew 28: 19-20
Sect: A religious group, division,
“branch” or faction
F. Government: How do people make decisions
for the group/society?
G. Economic Systems: the use of limited resources.
Economic Systems: How do people get their food/water,
clothing, and shelter?
Economic Systems
•Traditional•Market•Command•Mixed
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
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
• Other examples
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
Rate of Change
• Slow change for thousands of years
• Why?
• Increased rates of change in last 200 years
• Why?
• “The good old days”
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– Examples
Elements of Culture Quiz
1. Social Organization2. Customs and
Traditions3. Language4. Arts & Literature5. Religion6. Forms of
Government7. Economic Systems
a. Teach values through products of human imagination
b. The cornerstone of culturec. Using limited resources to
satisfy wants and needsd. Helps people answer
questions about lifee. Teaches rules of behavior,
like holidays & birthdaysf. Provides for the needs of the
peopleg. Basic unit is the family