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Culture

Culture. The knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society. Reflection. Why is culture important?. Material World. Material Culture

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Culture

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  1. Culture • The knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society

  2. Reflection • Why is culture important?

  3. Material World • Material Culture • The physical or tangible (see, touch) that members of a society make, use, and share • Raw Materials → Technology → Stuff • Non-Material Culture • The abstract or intangible human creations of society that influences people’s behavior • Language, beliefs, values, rules of behavior, family patterns, political systems

  4. Cultural Universals • Customs and practices that occur across all societies

  5. Components of Culture • Symbols • Anything that meaningfully represents something else • Language • A set of symbols that expresses ideas and enable people to think and communicate with one another • Values • Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable in a particular culture • Norms • Established rules of behavior or standards of conduct

  6. Come Up with Your Own • With a partner, generate a list of the following components of culture • Symbols • Language • Values • Norms

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