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The Concept of Culture

The Concept of Culture. Think of 10 ways in which we use the word culture or cultural. Eg. Culture shock, Canadian culture, multicultural. The Concept of Culture. C. Construction C. Awareness Deviant C. C. Shock Underground C. Rural C. Agriculture Pop C. Youth C.

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The Concept of Culture

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  1. The Concept of Culture Think of 10 ways in which we use the word culture or cultural. Eg. Culture shock, Canadian culture, multicultural

  2. The Concept of Culture C. Construction C. Awareness Deviant C. C. Shock Underground C. Rural C. Agriculture Pop C. Youth C. Global C. C. Identity gay/lesbian C C. Exchange C. Perspective C. Assimilation Cross-C Elite C. Dead C C. Diversity C. Sustainability Café C. Multicultural Canadian C. C. event To be C. C. Imperialism C. survival High C. C. Hegemony drug C. Enculturation C. Evolution Subculture C. Phenomenon uncultured World C. Intercultural Consumer C Bacterial C. Counter C. Safety C Public C.. C. Genocide Corporate C. C. Relativism

  3. Non-anthropological/sociological Agriculture Bacterial C. Horticulture, Aquaculture Refinement of mind, tastes, and manners High C. Elite C To be C. uncultured A continuum Global C. World C. C. Evolution Public C. A Way of Life Rural C. Corporate C. Canadian C. Youth C. Café C. Island C. A set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices Counter C. Safety C. drug C. Subculture Consumer C C. Perspective gay/lesbian C

  4. A celebration of difference C. Diversity C. Awareness Multicultural C. Relativism Intercultural Cross-C C. Exchange A disparagement of difference C. Shock Deviant C. Pop C. Underground C. Subculture C. Assimilation An object (of manipulation) C. Sustainability C. Genocide Dead C C. survival C. Hegemony C. Imperialism C. event C. Heritage A sense of agency C. Construction Enculturation A sense of identity and otherness C. Identity Canadian C

  5. Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex wholewhich includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habitsacquired my man as a member of society. E. B. Tylor 1871 Edward Burnett Tylor 1832-1917

  6. `The sum total of knowledge, attitudes and habitual behaviour patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a particular society' Ralph Linton (1940). The pattern of life within a community, the regularly recurring activities and material and social arrangements characteristic of a particular group'.Ward Goodenough (1957):

  7. “Culture is the framework of beliefs, expressive symbols, and values in terms of which individuals define their feelings and make their judgements” (Geertz 1957 American Anthropologist 59:32-54). `an historically transmitted pattern of meaning embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic form by means which men communicate' (Geertz 1973: 89). “Cultures are traditions and customs, transmitted through learning, that form and guide the beliefs and behaviour of the people exposed to them.... Cultural traditions include customs and opinions developed over the generations about proper and improper behaviour” (Kottak 2008)

  8. Culture is a way of life Ideas Attitudes Values Material Objects Behavior Patterns “Everything that people have, think, and do as members of a society” (Ferraro, 2008) Culture is Relative

  9. What is Canadian Culture?

  10. I A M C A N A D I A N !!! I am not a lumberjack or a fur trader, And I don't live in an igloo or eat blubber or own a dogsled, And I don't know Jimmy, Sally, or Susie from Canada, Although I am certain they are really, really nice. I have a Prime Minister, not a President. I speak English and French, not American. And I pronounce it "about" ... not "a-boot". I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack. I believe in peacekeeping not policing; Diversity not assimilation; And that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal! A tuque is hat; a chesterfield is a couch. And it is pronounced ZED not ZEE, ZED! Canada is the second largest landmass, The first nation of hockey, And the best part of North America! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMxGVfk09lU

  11. Some have to fight Cultural survival

  12. Dimensions of Culture • Values • Norms • Ideas/Beliefs Attitudes/Worldviews • Roles • Symbols • Traditions • Artifacts

  13. Characteristics of Culture • Culture is learned • Culture is unconscious • Culture is shared • Culture is integrated • Culture is Symbolic • Culture is a way of life • Culture is Dynamic • Culture is Relative

  14. Culture is learned How do we learn our culture? Enculteration

  15. Should everyone use a deodorant? Culture is Relative USA 89% French Canada 81% English Canada 77% United Kingdom 71% Italy 69% France 59% Such findings signal that Canadian values, ideas, and attitudes should not be relied upon when planning marketing forays into foreign consumer markets

  16. Economics Kinship law Religion Medicine Culture is Integrated

  17. Culture is Symbolic

  18. Culture is Dynamic 1896 1918 1924 1935 1955 1964 1970 1986 1995 2007

  19. Why do humans have Culture? What is its function? • To communicate - makes the actions of individuals intelligible to others • gives meaning to differences • Identity Can culture be maladaptive?

  20. Is cultural diversity a dying phenomenon? http://www.ted.com/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures.html

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