COBE week 2 Flashcards
What is the defenition of culture?
Culture is the accumulation of shared meanings, rituals, norms and traditions among members of an organization or society
What are the layers of culture?
- national culture
- buisness/ industry culture
- company culture (organizational culture)
- individual behaviour/decision maker
What are the culture characteristics?
- interrelated elements
- universual aspects
- consiousnes and subconciousnes
- learned
- functional
- dynamic
What do we see under the open system of interrelated functional elements
- ecology: adapted to its habitat
- social structure: gender roles, importance of family, ect.
- ideology: world view, ethos
Name some universual aspects of culture
- religion
- family life
- relationship to space (proxemics)
- relationship to time (monochronic versus polychronic)
- social control
- magic, myths, rituals
What is meant by enculturation?
The process of learning the beliefs and behaviours of your own culture
What is meant by acculturation?
The process of learning the beliefs and behaviours endorsed by another culture
Why has culture a function for society?
- sets norms (right and wrong)
- gives meaning
Why is culture dynamic?
- external causes like globalisation, changes in the world
- internal causes like changes in politics, views, ect.
What are norms?
dictate what is right and wrong, acceptable and unacceptable
What are enacted norms?
explicity decided upon
What are crescive norms?
embedded in culture, only discovered in interaction with other members
What are the types of crescive norms and explain what they are
- Customs: norm handed down from the past that controls basic behaviour.For example: division of labour in household.
- Mores: customs with a strong moral overtone including taboos. Violation of these meets strong censure. For example: cloathing, sexuality.
- Conventions: norms regarding conduct of everyday life. For example: spitting and belching of Chinese residents.
What are the rules for behaviour ruled by?
- magic
- myths
- rituals
What is ethnoconsumerism?
The understanding and analysis of each culture including consumer culture on the basis of its own premises.
