Chapter 1: Culture

Question 1

Define Culture

Answer 1

• can be personal characteristics of one
• can refer to the arts
• reflects beliefs; sum of characteristics
• not biological

Question 2

Give the Characteristics or Culture

Answer 2

LAPAM SSPWH ICV

1. Learned Behavior
2. Abstract
3. Pattern of Learned Behavior
4. Attitudes, Values, and Knowledge
5. Material Objects
6. Shared by members of society
7. Super-organic
8. Pervasive
9. Way of life
10. Human product
11. Idealistic
12. Continually Changing
13. Variable

Question 3

Not all behavior is learned, but most of it is learned

Answer 3

Learned behavior

Question 4

Culture exists in the minds or habits of the members of society. Culture is the shared ways of doing and thinking.

Answer 4

Abstract

Question 5

The definition of culture indicated that the learned behavior of people is patterned. Each person’s behavior often depends upon some particular behavior of someone else.

Answer 5

Pattern of learned behavior

Question 6

There is widespread error in the thinking of many people who tend to regard ideas, attitudes, and notions which they have as their own.

Answer 6

Attitudes, values knowledge

Question 7

Man’s behavior results in creating objects. Men were behaving when they made these things.

Answer 7

Material objects

Question 8

The patterns of learned behavior and the results of behavior are possessed not only by one or a few person, but usually by a large portion

Answer 8

Shared by the members of society

Question 9

It implies that culture is somehow superior to nature

Answer 9

Super-organic

Question 10

It touches every aspect of life. Unquestioned Context and pervades social activities and institutions

Answer 10

Pervasive

Question 11

Design for living

A culture is a historically derived system of explicit and implicit designs for living

Answer 11

Way of life

Question 12

Culture is not a force, operating by itself and independent of the human actors. There is an unconscious tendency to defy culture

Answer 12

Human Product

Question 13

It embodies the ideas and norms of a group. It is sum-total of the ideal patterns and norms of behavior of a group.

Answer 13

Idealistic

Question 14

There is one fundamental and inescapable attribute of culture, the fact of unending Grace

Answer 14

Continually changing

Question 15

Culture varies from society to society, group to group. There are subcultures within a culture.

Answer 15

Variables

Question 16

What are the four functions of culture?

Answer 16

1. Culture defines situations
2. Culture defines attitudes, values and goals
3. Culture defines myths, legends, and the supernatural
4. Culture provides behavior patterns