HOW C

ULTURE C

HANGES

HOW DOES CULTURE CHANGE?

Four factors:

Environmental changes – anything in the environment that can cause culture to change such as weather, access to resources, land development, etc.

New ideas – ideas can spark cultural change. These can be political, religious, economical, technological, entertainment, etc.

Technology – any kind of technological advance that changed culture, past or present.

Diffusion – the movement of materials and ideas from one culture to another. Influenced by migration, communication, trade and commerce.

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

NEW IDEAS

NEW IDEAS

TECHNOLOGYCell phones – ideas spread faster

Vehicles – spread culture

Computers – spread religion, music, change peoples dress

Electric cooking

Medical advances – helps spread medicine, make new medicine, changed

ideas about medicine

Guns

Office supplies

Farming equipment

Cameras

television – dress, speak, act

Internet

TECHNOLOGY

DIFFUSION

DIFFUSION

GLOBALIZATION

Globalization is the process of expanding social and economic relations across world-space.

Global Community -  the people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being economically, socially, and politically interdependent.

GLOBALIZATION

GLOBALIZATION

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Some people define ‘Globalization’ as “compressing the world into one to which everyone belongs regardless of national boundary, race, gender,

religion, etc.”

Do you agree? Why?

Of the factors for cultural change we’ve talked about today, which one do you believe is most

influential? Why?