Cultural Diversity

1. Cultural Diversity

2. Bell Work & Notes – Cultural Diversity – 2/13/14 What is culture? What factors do all cultures share and how do cultures differ? What are the core values of American society and how do they shape American culture?

3. Cultural Diversity • What is Culture? • All of the shared products of human groups

4. Objects • Cars • Clothing • Cell phones • Cooking utensils • Beliefs • family patterns, • ideas • language, • Political/economic systems • Rules • skills • work practices

5. Society vs. Culture Society Culture The products people create within • A group of people who a have organized in such a way to share a common culture

6. Components of Culture • 1. Technology- • the combination of material culture (objects) and rules • Symbols- • Anything that represents something else • 3. Language

7. American Isoglosses

15. Cultural components • 4. Values • Shared beliefs over what is right and wrong, good or bad, desirable and undesirable

16. Bell Work, Gentlemen, which would you use and why? Ladies, if you were a gentleman which one would you go to Norms- shared rules of conduct that people follow in shared situations Taboo Mores Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance Folkways • Norms that have great moral significance b/c violation of these rules endangers societies well-being • Norms that are so strong that violating them results in extreme disgust Societies make laws or written rules of conduct to enforce these ideas

17. Exit Slip - • Read Chapter 2 section 1 if you need to get a better idea of what we’ve talked about • Focus on Writing • Write two paragraphs describing a culture to within the United States to which you belong. For example write about a club or team of which you are a part of. Things to include: • Material & non-material culture • Technology • Symbols • Language • Values (mores, folkways, taboos etc…)

18. Bell work, Cultural Variation – 2/18/14 • If the world’s population was represented by 100 people… • How many would be from which major regions of the world? • How many would speak what languages? • How many would practice what religions? • How many would have a college education? • How many people would be malnourished (go hungry on a daily basis) • How many would have regular access to drinking water?

19. If the world was 100 people • 83 would be able to read and write; 17 would not • 7 would have a college degree22 would own or share a computer • 1 would be dying of starvation15 would be undernourished21 would be overweight • 87 would have access to safe drinking water13 people would have no clean, safe water to drink 60 Asians15 Africans14 people from the Americas11 Europeans 12 would speak Chinese5 would speak Spanish5 would speak English3 would speak Arabic3 would speak Hindi3 would speak Bengali3 would speak Portuguese2 would speak Russian2 would speak Japanese62 would speak other languages

20. Notes, Cultural Variation – What are our perceptions of the global population? What do our perceptions reflect about our culture and our awareness of others? Ethnocentrism- the belief that one’s own culture and group are superior to others Cultural Relativism- the idea that culture should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture

21. What things do all cultures have in common? Cultural Universals Arts & leisure Basic Needs Beliefs Communication and education Family Government and economy Technology

22. Reading about different cultures • As you read the article take note on the following concerning the culture: • Social Folkways, Mores & Taboos • Beliefs& Values • material & Non material culture

23. Bell Work/Notes – Cultural Variation – 2/19/14 • Answer the following in a couple of sentences • How might ethnocentrism cause discrimination? • (think about the Nacirema, before you knew what was going on, what did you think of them?

24. Cultural Variation Although Cultures have many universal traits, there are groups that do not follow every norm within every society, these are called SUBCULTURES- groups that share values, norms, and behaviors that are not shared by the entire population Examples? age, gender, ethnic, religious political, socioeconomic status & occupational

25. Cultural Variation • subcultures share values with the wider culture they are a part of, Counter Cultures do not. • Counterculture- subcultures whose practices, beliefs, norms and values are consciously intended to challenge the values and norms of wider society • Examples?

26. Perspectives on Culture • Functionalist- • Culture reflects and enforces society’s central values. • It encourages stability by integrating individuals into society. • Subcultures relieve discontent of subgroups • Ethnocentrism encourages group unity • Conflict • Culture reflects and enforces the values of those who hold power • It encourages and maintains social inequality • Subcultures and counter cultures challenge those in power • Ethnocentrism encourages discrimination against he powerless • Interactionism • Culture is maintained and modified through everyday social interactions • Interaction among subcultural groups helps to transmit customs and traditions and also introduces new cultural meaning systems

27. Homework • Read Chapter 2 Section 3 44-47 and answer the following • What are traditional American Values? • How have these values changes since the 1970s?

28. In your Notebooks for tomorrow • Chapter #1 Review (this is worth a good chunk of points, make sure its there!) • Bell Work & Notes – Cultural Diversity – 2/13/14 • Exit Slip – Focus on Writing – 2/17/14 • These were the paragraphs about a culture you belong to • Bell work, Cultural Variation – 2/18/14 • Bell Work/Notes – Cultural Variation – 2/19/14 • Homework – Chapter 2 section 3 • What are American values? How have the changed since 1970? • Other things that will be graded • Class Activity – American Values & Sub Cultures work sheet

29. American Values • What are they? • Personal Achievement • Progress & Material Comfort • Work • Individualism • Efficiency & Practicality • Morality • Equality & Democracy • Freedom