Monday 11-5 : the diffusion of culture

Greetings, fellow primate type creatures!

In our previous assignment, we had 

A) defined some terms about culture

B) applied these in the process of listing seventeen aspects of a culture that you like, or at least know something about

C) divided these up into various categories -- economic, spiritual, musical, etc etc

Now its time to take this even further. Here is what you will need to do:

1) Pick any one of these. And fer cryin' out loud, don't take all day -- just pick one. DO IT!!!!

2) For example, if I was talking about culture, I might settle on "nerd culture". One aspect of that culture is the importance of energy drinks and other similar products. One example of such is a product called Jolt cola. so, for the sake of example, I'll pick Jolt 

3) In the next step, you will need to break that example of culture into its parts. For example, Jolt cola -- when it was first produced -- was an energy drink with  "all the sugar and  twice the caffeine" and it came in a glass bottle with a colorful painted label -- with a prominent lightning bolt as its logo --that was affixed with some sort of adhesive. So, (some) of the parts for that could be listed something like:

• sugar
• caffeine
• carbonation
• bottles
• glass
• paper
• adhesive
• logo

4) For each one of those parts. start to trace back where and when and how they began. For example, I could trace the roots of the company to the founding of Wet Planet Beverages by a man named CJ Rapp in 1985. I could look up the origin of the first caffeinated beverages -- including coffee and tea -- as well as the origins of carbonation and carbonated beverages. I could look up the invention of bottling, the invention of glass, where each of them began, and so on and so forth

5) As always, list each website resource for the information with its exact webpage address, along with at least two complete sentences that explain when and where each component came from. 

6) Where stuff comes from is a crucial part of the diffusion of culture... its tells us where the things we take for granted actually came from

7) For each example of culture, break it down in to at least seven parts...more if possible

8) repeat this process with at least one example of culture from each of the categories you set up in the previous lesson

Send all this information to me either by email or as computer file uploaded to Box.com.   The subject line (or filename) should be your name plus "diffusion of culture"

cheers,
Mr. L