Culture: How Does It Change?

Rate of Cultural Change
- Cultures change constantly
- Cultures usually change very slowly
- Sometimes cultures change very rapidly
  - Called a "cultural revolution"
    - New ideas or inventions are introduced into the society that completely alters people's ways of life
    - b. Examples
Internal Reasons for Cultural Change - from within the society
- Invention
  - New Idea created
  - Very rare
  - Examples
- Innovation
  - A change to an existing idea
  - Examples
External Reasons for Cultural Change - from outside the society
- Through Culture Contact - when one society meets another
  - Trade
  - Travel
  - War
- Cultural Borrowing
  - Taking from a different society customs and making them your own
  - Examples
IV. Acculturation
- Putting off your customs and taking on new ones to fit into a new society
- Examples

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