Post on 14-Jan-2016
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
WHAT IS CULTURE?
The beliefs and actions that
define a group of people’s way
of life.
CAMEROON
HIPPIES
MEXICAN CULTURE
CAMBODIAN CULTURE
SKATEBOARD CULTURE
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE
POLYNESIAN CULTURE
IMPORTANT KEY TERMS :
Population Density
Immigrant
Emigrant
Cultural Hearth
Cultural Convergence
Diffusion
Cultural Divergence
The average
number of
people in a
square mile.
POPULATION DENSITY
MATH TIME!
So if you have 3,456,789 people living in an area that has 589 square miles. What is the average of people that live in a square mile?
5869 people per square mile
You have 3,456,789 people living in an area that has 1,345,789 square miles. What is the average of people that live in a square mile?
2.5 people per square mile.
A QUESTION:
What factors (things) lead
people to live where they do?
Make a list of 5 things that lead people
to live in certain areas.
HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE THE WORD
ADAPT?
How do humans
adapt to their
environment?
POPULATION GROWTH
What will the effects of
rapid population be?
IMMIGRANT VS. EMIGRANT
What is the difference
between these two words
Immigrant and Emigrant?
CULTURAL HEARTH
Is a place where important
ideas begin and from
which they spread to
surrounding cultures.
Where are some places
where big ideas have
started?
NASA
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
JERUSALEM
AFRICA
ALBERT EINSTEIN’S BRAIN
THE WORLD
Language
Without it people
could not
communicate.
TWO IMPORTANT THINGS OF CULTURE
Religion
Helps people
answer basic
questions about the
meaning and
purpose of life.
SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
Organizing members into smaller
units.
Why?• It’s meant to help the people of a
culture work together to meet their basic needs.
FAMILY IS MOST IMPORTANT
SOCIAL CLASS
Rank people in order of
status.•Based on money, occupation, education, ancestry, etc…
HIGH CLASS
MIDDLE CLASS
LOW CLASS
POVERTY
CULTURAL CHANGE
How do cultures
change?
CULTURAL CONVERGENCE
When the skills, arts, ideas, habits, and
institutions of one culture come in
contact with those of another culture.
When would cultural convergence
happen?
CULTURAL DIVERGENCE
The restriction of a culture from
outside cultural influences.
Why would a culture not what to be
influenced by other cultures?
WHAT CULTURES ARE YOU FROM?