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Culture
Taiwan Peru
IndiaNew Guinea
New Guinea
Brazil
Kenya
Egypt
CultureCulture: a design for living, produced by members of society.
It’s the languages, values, symbols, norms, behavior, and material objects passed from one generation to the next.
Non-material Material “thinking”
“objects”
Units of Culture
•Trait: bacon, eggs, toast, juice,…
•Complex: breakfast
•Pattern: eating
•Culture: three meals a day
Taken for Granted
“The last thing a fish would ever notice would be the water.”
When our assumptions of culture are challenged it can be upsetting. A couple examples are hygiene and starring.
All Cultures Consist of Five
Components
1.Symbols- attach meaning to and use to communicate.
Symbols affect our thoughts about gender and race
Symbols can be many things to many people
They can stand for love, peace, hate, etc..
Send the right signal!
Language
•Allows human experience to be cumulative.
•Provides a shared social past
•Provides a shared social future.
•Share experiences with others.
•Allows us goal directed behavior.
Values are shared beliefs by society that something is good, desirable, or important.
Highly held values lead to conflict, such as freedom and individualism
American Value System
By: Robin Williams (1965)
1.Achievement 2. Individualism 3. Work
4. Efficiency 5. Progress 6. Science
7. Material Comfort 8. Humanitarianism
9. Freedom 10. Democracy 11. Racism
12. Education 13. Religion 14. monogamy
Emerging Values
Leisure
Youngness
Self-fulfillment
Physical Fitness
Value Contradiction
When values challenge one another
Ex. Morality vs. Partying
Norms-shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situation.
Folkways
Mores
Taboos
Sanctions Positive Negative Formal
Informal
Ethnocentrism is deeply instilled in our minds that we condemn cultural practices radically different from ours.
Napolean Chagnon and his life with the Yanomamo.
Cultural Relativism requires the suspension of our own perspectives in order to grasp the perspective of others.
Subcultures
Share a distinct set of cultural beliefs and behaviors that differ in some significant way from that of the large society.
Participate in mainstream society, but associate with one another more personally and frequently than with members of other groups.
Amish
100,000 pop.75% living in Pennsylvania Values include joy in work,thriftiness, faith in God, reject worldly concerns.
Counterculture: a group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyles.
High Culture: classical music, theatre, and other elite activities.
Popular Culture
Forms of Popular Culture
FADS: