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Socio-Cultural Context. socio-cultural context. WORD ATTACK: What meaning can you make from the above phrase by breaking it apart?. Society. Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships
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socio-cultural context WORD ATTACK: What meaning can you make from the above phrase by breaking it apart?
Society • Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships • (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions
Culture Culture is an integral part of every society. It is a learned pattern of behavior and ways in which a person lives his or her life. Culture is essential for the existence of a society, because it binds people together. In the explicit sense of the term, culture constitutes the music, food, arts and literature of a society.
Culture • Every society has a different culture, where people share a specific language, traditions, behavior, perceptions and beliefs. Culture gives them an identity which makes them unique and different from people of other cultures. When people of different cultures migrate and settle in another society, the culture of that society becomes the dominant culture and those of the immigrants form the subculture of the community. Usually, people who settle in other nations imbibe the new culture, while at the same time strive to preserve their own.
CONTEXT • Anything beyond the specific words of a literary work that may be relevant to understanding the meaning. Contexts may be economic,social,cultural,historical, racial, political, etc.
Socio-Cultural-Context • Think about the story of the Three Little Pigs
Socio-Cultural-Context • Why is a Brick house better than a straw or a stick house?
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Socio-Cultural Context What is the SOCIAL back drop? What is the CULTURAL back drop? How to the characters and events fit into the CONTEXT of this back drop? What “world” is this action taking place in?
Look at the following passage. What can we figure out about the socio-cultural context? Annotate the passage. Find evidence of the socio-cultural context.
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher. … One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. … While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. … The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. … Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard.
What Can We Learn About Their... • Home • Economic Status • Era • Culture • Society
If We Were Describing the Setting Completely We Would Also Include... Details about the place Time of year Weather Mood/ Atmosphere
Reading Journal #5: Socio-Cultural Context Define Socio-Cultural Context in your own words Include an anchor passage from your novel that speaks to the socio-cultural context of the book Describe the socio-cultural context of your book and explain its importance in the story Visual Component
