December 2
EQ- What is culture?
Agenda:
1. Review Thanksgiving
Break Assignment (and
collect)
2. Chapter 4 Part 1
1. Cornell Notes
2. Amish Culture
3. Amish culture
documentary and notes
Table of Contents:
64. Culture Unit Word
Wall
65. Thanksgiving Break
Assignment
66. Culture Cornell
Notes
67. Amish Culture
68. What is your
culture?
Homework: Complete the Defining Culture assignment
Word Wall- culture, values, beliefs, behaviors,
non-material culture, material culture, pop
culture, folk culture
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Cornell Notes
In your own words, what is culture?
What is non-material culture (values, norms, behaviors)?
Give one example of your culture values, norms and
beliefs.
What is material culture?
Give two or more examples of your own material culture.
What is folk culture?
What is popular culture?
Are you part of a folk culture or popular culture? Why?
Reminder: What is a hearth? What is diffusion?
What is their culture?
• Where do you think this is
located?
• Describe this group’s material
culture by listing five things
you see.
What is Amish culture?
As we watch the documentary, take
notes on different elements of Amish
material and non-material culture.
December 4
EQ- How do we define American culture? What
are some folk cultures within the United
States?
Agenda:
1. Collect and discuss HWCreate your own
material/non-material self
2. American popular Culture
in groups
3. Folk Cultures in the United
States- research and poster
creation
Table of Contents:
69. My Culture
70. American Folk Cultures
Poster
HW- Finish your poster
and submit to
hollysterling@gmail.com;
Nacirema Article and
Questions
Think about your culture. Place
words and images related to
your material culture outside of
the bubble, and words and
images related to your nonmaterial culture inside the
bubble.
In your groups, discuss the concept
of American popular culture. Come
up with at least 20 components of
American culture. Use your HW
from last night as a guide to the
different elements of culture you
can discuss/pick from.
American Folk Cultures
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Romani
Amish
Mennonite
Ramapoug Mountain
People (Jackson Whites)
Lumbee
Melungeons
Gullah/Geechee
People of Appalachia
Pick one culture.
Research it online.
Answer the questions.
Create the poster.
Email it to Ms. Sterling
December 8
Agenda:
1.Test correction
on Chapter 3
Test
2.GroupworkDefining
American
Culture
Homework:
Read the Nacirema Article
(on website) and answer
the questions.
Test Corrections:
Question #- Incorrect AnswerCORRECT ANSWER- Question and
Answer (written out) in a correct
sentence- page # or powerpoint
slide # where the answer can be
found
December 10
EQ- What are cultural taboos? What determines culture?
Agenda:
1. Review
homework
2. Cultural Taboos
3. What determines
culture?
4. Taboos
Table of Contents:
71. Taboos
72. What determines culture?
73. Culture Project
HW- Answer the
questions for Chapter 4
Key Issues 3 & 4. Culture
Project due next Friday!
Body Rituals of the Nacirema
• Get out your HW!
• What did you think of this reading?
• Were you shocked to find out that
they were describing Americans?
• What were your initial thoughts on
the “Nacirema”?
• What is the ‘lesson’ from this activity?
Taboos
A restriction on behavior
imposed by social custom.
Religious Taboos
• Which religions do not consume:
Pork?
Wine?
Beef?
Shellfish (Crabs, shrimp, etc.)?
• Social Taboos
• What are some social taboos that you can think of….?
World Muslim Population
Swine Stock
Figure 4-8
World Wine Production
Which groups have the
following social taboos?
• Use of modern technology
• Mistreatment of business cards
• Taking a picture with three people
• Unlucky number 4
• Eating food with your left hand
• Showing the bottom of your shoes to
others
• Giving flowers in an even number.
A few taboos in American
Culture
1. Body odor
2. Public touching apart
from the arm
3. The numbers 13 or
666
4. The mistreatment of
holy symbols or
patriotic symbols
5. A young woman
marrying a much
older man (20 yrs old
and 80 yrs old).
Universal Taboos?
• Cannibalism
• Incest
• Patricide
• Certain sexual taboos
Traits and Diffusion
• Cultural trait- a single attribute of a culture/group
• Ex: Drinking wine with meals; Women wearing head coverings
• Cultural hearths
• A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions
spread outward.
• Cultural diffusion
• the spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.
• Hierarchical diffusion
• where ideas and artifacts spread between larger places or prominent
people and only later to smaller places of less prominent people.
• Contagious diffusion
• when almost all individuals and areas outward from the source region are
affected.
• Stimulus diffusion
• in which a basic idea, though not the specific trait itself , stimulates
imitative behavior within a population.
Warm Up #2
• What is a Taboo?
• How do you think a Taboo could hinder Diffusion?
The Danger of a Single Story
Watch the TED Talks presentation.
What does she mean by “the danger of
a single story”?
Why is this important for us to keep in
mind as we delve into our unit on
culture?