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What is Culture?

What is Culture?. Chapter 4, Section 1. Culture: A Total Way of Life. Culture  the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs. Elements of Culture. Culture includes the work people do, their behaviors, their beliefs, and their ways of doing things

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What is Culture?

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  1. What is Culture? Chapter 4, Section 1

  2. Culture: A Total Way of Life • Culture  the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs

  3. Elements of Culture • Culture includes the work people do, their behaviors, their beliefs, and their ways of doing things • Passed on through generations • Cultural Traits  a particular group’s individual skills, customs, and ways of doing things

  4. Elements of Culture • Some elements of culture are easy to see • Houses, food, clothing, sports, literature • Some you cannot see or touch • Spiritual beliefs, ideals, government, ideas about right and wrong, language

  5. People and Their Land • Geographers study culture, especially activities that relate to the environment • Human-environmental interaction • Landforms, climate, vegetation, and resources affect culture

  6. People and Their Land • Geographers are also interested in the effect people have on their environment • Effect is tied to technology  tools and the skills people need to use them • Used to take advantage of natural resources and change the environment • Stone tools; computers

  7. People and Their Land • Cultural landscape  any changes to the environment in which the group lives • Includes technology to make the changes • Bali, Indonesia  many mountains; people carved terraces in them to create flat farmland

  8. The Development of Culture • Cultures develop over a long time • Geographers say early cultures went through 4 stages: • the invention of tools • the discovery of fire • the growth of agriculture, or faming • the use of writing

  9. Early Technology • Most of history, people were hunters and gatherers • Wood and stone tools and weapons • Fire

  10. The Start of Agriculture • Over time, societies relied on farming for most of their good • Change from following herds to farming = Agricultural Revolution • Provided a steady food supply • Birthrates rose • Death rates fell • Population increased • Creation of cities and complex societies

  11. The Start of Agriculture • Complex societies = special skills used as jobs; laws and government developed; writing • Civilization  when a culture develops a writing system

  12. The Start of Agriculture • Early civilizations created unique forms of art and music • Organized their beliefs into religions • Roads and canals became features of the landscape • Irrigation and terracing allowed people to grow more and better crops • People spread over more and more regions • As they moved, they made changes to the Earth’s landscape

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