1. CHAPTER 2 CULTURE

9. Global Map 2-1 (p. 47) Language in Global Perspective (details on next three slides) Source : Peter’s Atlas of the World (1990); updated by the author. Society: The Basics, 9 th Edition by John Macionis Copyright © 2007 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

10. Global Map 2-1a Language in Global Perspective Chinese (including mandarin, Cantonese, and dozens of other dialects) is the native tongue of one-fifth of the world’s people, almost all of whom live in Asia. Although all Chinese people read and write with the same characters, they use several dozen dialects. The “official” dialect, taught in schools throughout the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Taiwan, is Mandarin (the dialect of Beijing, China’s historical capital city). Cantonese, the language of Canton, is the second most common Chinese dialect; it differs in sound from Mandarin roughly the way French differs from Spanish. Society: The Basics, 9 th Edition by John Macionis Copyright © 2007 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

11. Global Map 2-1b Language in Global Perspective English is the native tongue or official language in several world regions (spoken by one-tenth of humanity) and has become the preferred second language in most of the world. Society: The Basics, 9 th Edition by John Macionis Copyright © 2007 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

12. Global Map 2-1c Language in Global Perspective The largest concentration of Spanish speakers is in Latin America and, of course, Spain. Spanish is also the second most widely spoken language in the United States. Society: The Basics, 9 th Edition by John Macionis Copyright © 2007 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

13. National Map 2-1 (p. 56) Language Diversity across the United States Of more than 268 million people age five or older in the United States, the Census Bureau reports that 52 million (19 percent) speak a language other than English at home. Of these, 62 percent speak Spanish and 15 percent use an Asian language (the Census Bureau lists 29 languages, each of which is favored by more than 100,000 people). The map shows that non-English speakers are concentrated in certain regions of the country. Which ones? What do you think accounts for this pattern? Source : U.S. Census Bureau (2003, 2006). Society: The Basics, 9 th Edition by John Macionis Copyright © 2007 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

18. Figure 2.1 (p. 46) Human Languages: A Variety of Symbols Here the single English word “Read” is written in twelve of the hundreds of languages humans use to communicate with one another. Society: The Basics, 9 th Edition by John Macionis Copyright © 2007 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

27. Figure 2-3 (p. 57) Life Objectives of First-Year College Students, 1969-2005 Today’s students are less interested in developing a philosophy of life and more interested in making money. Sources : Astin et al. (2002) and Pryor et al. (2005). Society: The Basics, 9 th Edition by John Macionis Copyright © 2007 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

29. Figure 2-2 (p. 49) Cultural Values of Selected Countries Higher-income countries are secular-rational and favor self-expression. The cultures of lower-income countries are more traditional and concerned with economic survival. Source : Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy by Ronald Inglehart and Christian Weizel, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Society: The Basics, 9 th Edition by John Macionis Copyright © 2007 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

53. Figure 2-4 (p. 59) The View from “Down Under” North American should be “up” and South America “down,” or so we think. But because we live on a globe, “up” and “down” have no meaning at all. The reason this map of the Western Hemisphere looks wrong to us is not that it is geographically inaccurate; it simply violates our ethnocentric assumption that the United States should be “above” the rest of the Americas. Society: The Basics, 9 th Edition by John Macionis Copyright © 2007 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

68. Applying Theory: Culture (p. 61) Society: The Basics, 9 th Edition by John Macionis Copyright © 2007 Prentice Hall, a division of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.