3. 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.

4. ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

5. ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

6. ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

7. ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

8. NEW IDEAS

9. NEW IDEAS

10. TECHNOLOGY
Cell phones – ideas spread about medicine
faster Guns
Vehicles – spread culture Office supplies
Computers – spread Farming equipment
religion, music, change
peoples dress Cameras
Electric cooking television – dress, speak, act
Medical advances – helps Internet
spread medicine, make new
medicine, changed ideas

11. TECHNOLOGY

12. DIFFUSION

13. DIFFUSION

14. 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.

15. GLOBALIZATION

16. GLOBALIZATION

17. 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?