December 8 - January 1 (Unit interrupted by Holiday Break)
Essential Questions
How do cultural relativism and ethnocentrism reflect different attitudes toward cultural difference?
How do attitudes toward ethnicity and gender, including the role of women in the workforce, ethnic neighborhoods, and indigenous communities, help shape the use of space?
How do regional patterns of religion and ethnicity contribute to a sense of place?
Why might ethnicity and religion be considered centripetal and centrifugal forces?
How can interactions between and among cultural traits and larger global forces lead to new forms of cultural expression?
How have colonialism, imperialism, and trade helped to shape patterns and practices of culture?
Why do religions have distinct places of origin from which they diffused and how do the practices and belief systems impact diffusion?
How do universalizing religions including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Sikhism spread through expansion and relocation diffusion?
Why are ethnic religions, including Hinduism and Judaism, generally found near the hearth or spread through relocation diffusion?
I can...
Define the characteristics, attitudes, and traits that influence geographers when they study culture.
Explain patterns and landscapes of religion, ethnicity, and gender.
Explain how historical processes impact current cultural patterns.
Explain what factors lead to the diffusion of universalizing and ethnic religions.
Standards
SS.Geog4.a.h - Evaluate the effect of culture on a place over time.
SS.Geog4.a.h - Analyze how physical and human characteristics interact to give a place meaning and significance (e.g., Panama Canal) and shape culture.
SS.Geog4.a.h - Explain how and why place-based identities can shape events at various scales (e.g., neighborhood, regional identity).
SS.Geog4.a.h - Explain how and why people view places and regions differently as a function of their ideology, race, ethnicity, language, gender, age, religion, politics, social class, and economic status.
SS.Geog5.a.h - Analyze the intentional and unintentional spatial consequences of human actions on the environment at the local, state, tribal, regional, country, and world levels.