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    The Study of Human

    Geography
    What is Culture?
    • The beliefs and
    actions that
    define a group of
    people’s way of
    life
    Culture
    1. Customs / Beliefs
    2. Language
    3. Religion
    4. Technology
    5. Institutions / Government
    Customs / Beliefs
    (Lead to Traditions)

    Reflect the values of a society


    Family Structure
    Parents may live with just their children.
    Other places parents, children, and extended family
    live together.
    Gender Roles: Changing Gender Traditional Roles
    • Roles Roles: • Many countries
    specifically • Women in in the world
    assigned to men America have maintain
    and women. seen many traditional roles
    changes for women.
    Language
    • Needed to communicate
    Religion
    • Set of beliefs about the meaning of
    life and the supernatural

    • Customs and practices deal with those


    beliefs
    Major Religions

    Judaism
    Christianity
    Islam
    Hinduism
    Buddhism

    Animism
    Sikhism
    Technology
    • Urban vs. Rural

    • Modern vs. Traditional


    Rural
    Urban
    Modern Technology
    Traditional Technology
    Institutions / Governments
    • Institution –take care of social needs

    • Government –protect from outsiders


    and regulate behavior
    Schools
    Hospital
    Military
    Cultural Hearth
    Point of origin of a cultural trait
    Cultural Hearth
    Cultural Convergence
    The contact and interaction of one
    culture with another
    Spain introduces Roman
    Catholicism into Mexico
    Mexican American culture introduces
    Roman Catholicism to the Southwest US
    Spreading European Languages
    Cultural Divergence
    restriction of a culture from outside
    influences
    Cultural Divergence
    Cultural Divergence
    Cultural Divergence
    Cultural Diffusion
    (also known as spatial diffusion)
    a cultural element is transmitted across
    some distance from one group or
    individual to another
    Spread of Christianity from
    Europe to America
    Spanish introducing horses to
    America
    Movies made in America going
    to the rest of the world
    Buddhism spreading into China
    Islam spreading into Indonesia
    Spreading European Languages

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