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CULTURE

CULTURE. What is culture?. Specialized behavior patterns, understandings, adaptations and social patterns that comprise a group’s learned way of life. Language Clothing Shelter Religion Values. Education Economy Government and laws Use of leisure time. Elements of culture.

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CULTURE

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  1. CULTURE

  2. What is culture? • Specialized behavior patterns, understandings, adaptations and social patterns that comprise a group’s learned way of life.

  3. Language Clothing Shelter Religion Values Education Economy Government and laws Use of leisure time Elements of culture

  4. Elements of culture • Made up of learned behaviors • Learning culture is continuous • All cultures involve the use of language and symbols • Elements of culture relate to one another • Members share some values and norms • E.g., Interaction methods and expressions of emotion are cultural.

  5. Components of culture • Transmitted within a society to each generation by imitation, instruction and example. • Contains a framework of rules, interrelationships and established groups, and is a complex web of behaviors and attitudes.

  6. Subgroups • Each culture contains subgroups, with their own structures. • What are some of the sub-groups in American culture?

  7. Culture traits • Units of learned behavior such as the language spoken or the games played. • an object—a fishhook • a technique—a way of weaving a fishnet • a belief—that spirits reside in the water • an attitude—that fish is the best form of protein

  8. CULTURE COMPLEX • The interrelated cultural traits of a group. • For example, the car in the US • Reflects status • Is part of everyone’s everyday life (or is it?) • Is shown in or is the subject of movies and TV shows • Is involved in a rite of passage

  9. Customs • The shared, repeated characteristic acts, behavioral patterns, artistic traditions and conventions regulating social life of a group.

  10. The largest groupings • Culture system – a generalization which suggests shared identifying traits uniting more than one culture complex. • Culture region—a formal region with shared prevailing cultural characteristics, a portion of the Earth in which people share traits that are identifiable and distinctive. • Including political organizations, religions, economic structures, clothing, food, eating utensils.

  11. Culture realms • A set of culture regions which are similar

  12. What about globalization? • Is the homogenization of culture destined to occur? • Maybe not even though American popular culture has been exported throughout the world, items are experienced and valued differently in each culture.

  13. Some questions for you: • How do you think you learned your culture? • How do you think your culture has shaped you? How has it influenced your values, preferences, and beliefs? • Despite the differences in culture in our class, what are some things that everyone in our class has in common? • How does culture shape the way we see ourselves, others, and the world?

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