M1:3

Question 1

What are the three general sources of influence or pressure that facilitate or hinder change?

Answer 1

The forces that work within a society
Contact between societies
Changes in the natural environment

Question 2

What makes cultural institutions so resistant to change?

Answer 2

The fact that cultural institutions are integrated and often interdependent.

Question 3

Explain cultural diffusion

Answer 3

Cultural diffusion occurs when different cultures adopt values ideas and ways of life from different cultures, or even entire cultures.

Question 4

Acculturation

Answer 4

Acculturation occurs when alien traits diffuse into a culture and replace the majority of its traditional cultural patterns.

Question 5

What happens to immigrants when they are assimilated?

Answer 5

They become joined into the culture and understand the culture’s layers, thus becoming fully integrated members of it.

Question 6

Explain stimulus diffusion

Answer 6

Stimulus diffusion is when an idea, originally from one culture, diffuses outward and is adopted by another culture but is changed.

Question 7

How can changes in the environment affect cultural change?

Answer 7

Changes in the environment could affect a group of peoples’ geographic location and by extension, their practices and ways of living.