Chapter 2 Flashcards
What is Taylor( 1871) concept?
The complex whole includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
What is Haviland(1999) concept?
The ideals, values and beliefs members of a society share to interpret experience and generate behaviour and that are reflected by their behaviour.
What are the characteristics of culture?
A. Shared
B. learned
C. Based on symbols
D. Intrgrated
What does it mean when a culture is shared?
It is a group of people who have a common homeland, are interdependent and share a common culture.
Factors that makes it a culture is shared are:
.Cultural variation
.Individual variation
.Sex and gender
.Age
.Ethnocultural and indigenous groups
.Pluralistic societies contain several distinct cultures and subcultures
What does it mean when a culture is learned?
Through enculturation meaning it is the transmission of a society’s culture from one generation to the next.
What is culture is based on symbols?
Symbol: an object that stands for something else. The most important symbolic aspect of culture is language.
What is culture is integrated?
Integration: The tendency for all aspects of a culture to function as an interacted whole.
Popular culture: The culture of our everyday lives that each cultural group enjoys and gives meaning to their lives. (It is the prominent in anthropological inquiry)
Micro cultures: A group of people who share common interests/experiences from which they take their identity.
Culture is not static, and all cultures must change under a variety of factors that are:
-Meeting environment crisis
-Responding to intrusions by outsides
-Evolving internal behaviour and values.
Cultural change may be inefficient or disastrous
Culture, society and individual evolution.
If a society is to survive, it must succeed in balancing the self-interests of its members against the demands of the society as a whole.
