Ji lesson 1 how culture changes
Transcript of Ji lesson 1 how culture changes
HOW C
ULTURE C
HANGES
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.
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
NEW IDEAS
NEW IDEAS
TECHNOLOGYCell 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
TECHNOLOGY
DIFFUSION
DIFFUSION
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.
GLOBALIZATION
GLOBALIZATION
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?