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What is culture?
Culture is a complex set of beliefs, values, norms, customs, practices, languages and artifacts shared by a group of people that shapes their worldview and influences their behaviours and interactions
How is culture developed?
Culture is developed when people rationalise their social behaviours consistent with shared values
What are the three types of cultural development?
Unilinear : all human societies progress through a single sequence of stages of development, from simple to complex forms
Multilinear : culture evolve and develop in multiple ways, rather than following a single, universal path
Cultural Imperialist : Idea that powerful nations or dominant cultures impose their cultural values, beliefs, and practices on less powerful socities
What are the factors that influence culture development?
Climate
Demography
Population size
Migration
Available sources
What are the components of culture?
Symbols : anything that carries a particular meaning recognised by people who share culture
Language : a system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another
Values and Belief : culturally defined standards where people judge, desirability, goodness and beauty and serve as a broad guidelines for social living
Norms : principles of the right actions that bind individuals to regulate socially accepted behaviour
Material culture : Examples like book and buildings that future generations can use to try and understand us
What are the types of culture?
high culture : cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite
popular culture : cultural patterns that are widespread among a society’s population
subculture : cultural patterns that distinguish some segment of society’s population
counterculture : cultural patterns that strongly oppose the widely accepted cultural pattern
What are the levels of culture?
Culture trait : individual tool, act or belieff
Culture complex : cluster of interrelated traits
Culture pattern : combination of culture complex