Culture

Remediation Assignment

What is culture?

• Culture can best be described as a society’s “WAY OF LIFE.”– It includes the • beliefs, • values, • ideas, • and artifacts that are shared by people.

What is culture?

• Culture includes both material and non-material parts.–Material culture= the “STUFF” of culture.• Things we can see, touch, use, and do.• Ipods, cell phones, sports, etc.

–Non-Material Culture= the “IDEAS” of culture.• Values (honesty), beliefs (religion), and

concepts (marriage).

Cultures Change

• Culture is always changing.• Cultures change in 3 main ways.–Invention.–Innovation.–Cultural diffusion.

What is Invention?

• Invention= the creation of something from a brand new idea. It is a new creation.– The light bulb was a new invention of Thomas

Edison.– The computer was a new invention of the 1950’s.

– Inventions can also be changed and updated, innovation.

What is Innovation?

• Innovation is a change in an invention, or making an invention better.– Computers, Iphones, cars are all examples of

inventions that have changed, or been innovated, over time.

– New inventions or innovations change the way we live, and therefore change our culture.

What is Cultural Diffusion?

• Ideas, goods, and people are constantly moving around our world.

• Cultural diffusion is the movement of these ideas or goods from place to place or culture to culture.– Anime- came from Japan.– Pizza was created in Italy.