Chapter 1 Section 4
Review
How Cultures Change
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Aim: How do cultures change?
Objectives: You will be able to…
• Explain and give examples of how cultures change
• Describe ethnocentrism
Agenda:
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Chapter 1 Section 4 Review
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Causes of Cultural Change
• Many forces can change how people live and
thus change their culture
– New technology
– Environmental changes
– New ideas- developed within a group or through
exposure to another group’s ideas (cultural
diffusion)
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Cultural Diffusion
• The movement of customs, traditions, or ideas from
one place to another
• Can occur through trade, migration, communication,
and force
• Causes changes in culture
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Tradition and Change
• For thousands of years, cultures changed
slowly…BUT the pace of change has
quickened!
– Why?
– Positive and negative effects?
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Understanding Other Cultures
• People’s own culture affects how they think about other
cultures
• Leads to ethnocentrism- judging other cultures by the
standards of one’s own culture
– Examples of ethnocentrism? (video)
– How ethnocentric are we?
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Avoiding Ethnocentrism
• “Always look for the up side”
– i.e. there MUST be a positive aspect to every cultural
practice for someone;
– OTHERWISE, the culture wouldn’t be doing it
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his
skin, or his background or his religion. If [people] can learn to
hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally
to the human heart than its opposite.” -Nelson Mandela
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