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introduction to culture.
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Culture
The shared beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and technologies of a society.
Cultural traits
Visible and invisible attributes that combine to make up a group's culture. Examples include:
What are some examples of cultural traits.
Artifacts, Sociofacts, Mentifacts.
Artifact
Visible, physical objects created by a culture.
What are some examples of an artifact?
Houses, Clothing, Architecture, Toys, Tools, and Furniture.
Mentifacts
The ideas, beliefs, values and knowledge of a culture.
What are some examples of mentifacts?
Religious Beliefs, Language, Food Preferences, & Taboos
Sociofacts.
The ways in which a society behaves and organizes institutions.
What are some examples of sociofacts?
Family, School/Education, Government, Religion, Land Use, and Gender Roles.
What is local/traditional culture?
small, homogenous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are isolated and unlikely to change.
Homogenous
the same/similar.
What are some examples of local architecture?
Materials from the physical environment, like snow, mud, and stone.
What are some examples of local land use?
Agricultural, Sense of place: Unique attributes and cultural influences.
What is global/pop culture?
often living in urban areas that are connected through globalization and the internet/social media. Quick to change, time-space compression.
Heterogenous
Largely populated.
What are some examples of global pop architecture?
Materials from factories & manufactured.
Glass, steel, drywall, cement.
What are the two types of culture?
Local/traditional culture and global/pop culture.
What are some global/pop land use examples?
Urban & suburban
Placelessness: loss of uniqueness, very uniform.
Local/traditional characteristics.
Homogeneous, oral traditions, changes slowly, emphasis on community, food is locally produced.
Global/pop characteristics.
Heterogeneous, mass media, changes rapidly, emphasis on the individual, weakly defined gender roles.
Cultural Norms.
Agreed upon cultural practices or standards that guide the behavior of a culture.
Cultural Taboos
Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture.
Ethnocentrism
Judging another cultures because you believe yours is better.
Eskimo related to ethnocentrism
Was a word used for outsiders, eaters of raw fish.
Inuit related to ethnocentrism.
means real people, used by members of the group.
Cultural Relativism.
Viewing a culture unbiased, just trying to understand another's culture.