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Unit Essential Question: How does time and place drive individual and social identity?. 7 Elements of Culture. Learning Target Students will identify and explain the elements of culture by matching the element with the function it serves. Culture.
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Unit Essential Question: How does time and place drive individual and social identity? 7 Elements of Culture • Learning Target • Students will identify and explain the elements of culture by matching the element with the function it serves.
Culture A group of people with shared characteristics Beliefs History Practices Way of life
Elements of Culture • Social Organization • Relationship among individuals • Family • Nuclear • Extended • Social classes • Money • Job • Education
Elements of Culture • Customs and Traditions • Can be customs, traditions, rules, or written laws • Celebrations and expressions • Rules for behavior • reinforce ideas of right and wrong • De facto (practice) vs De jure(law) segregation in C Springs
Elements of Culture • Languages • Cornerstone of culture • All cultures have a spoken language • Speak the same language share a culture • Each language can have several different dialects
Elements of Culture • Arts and Literature • Products of the human imagination • Help us pass on the culture’s basic beliefs • Examples: • art, music, literature, and folk tales
Elements of Culture • Forms of Government • Governments • provide for their common needs • keep order within society • protect their society from outside threats. • Laws and political institutions • Why is it important? • To what extent do people make decisions? • Participate/Power/Influence
Elements of Culture Economic System • How people use limited resources to satisfy their wants and needs. • Answers the basic questions: what to produce, how to produce it, and for whom.
Elements of Culture • Religion • Answers basic questions about the meaning of life • Supports values that groups of people feel are important • Can be a source of conflict between cultures • General types of religions • Monotheism is a belief in one god. • Polytheism is a belief in many gods. • Atheism is a belief in no gods.
World Religions Pre-Test Directions • Complete the pre-test to the best of your ability. • Write in PENCIL only • If you don’t know an answer don’t guess. Just move on.