The third section will demonstrate the key concepts of cultural change using baseball as an example. The last section is a reference and acknowledgements section and will contain additional readings if you are so interested. Like a pebble thrown into a pond, the idea ripples outward from its original source. Culture is a society with its own way of life created to satisfy its needs. Cultural Hearth A place where culture begins and from which new ideas spread to other cultures of the world.
Cultural traits are the objects, ideas, behaviors, and other characteristics of a culture.
The Geographic Concept of Spatial Diffusion Culture and the study of culture is one of the best ways to see similarities and differences between different cultures. Cultural traits include such things as language, religion, settlement patterns, music, art, and even sports. Cultural geographers have traditionally studied such activities as language and religion or settlement patterns. Popular culture is the culture of the fast paced, every changing, industrialized and urbanized society of the cities of the world. Folk culture is the study of the more durable way of life found in many tradition bound rural areas of the world.