Culture Flashcards
Characteristics of Culture
Culture is everything
Culture is learn
Culture is shared
Culture affects Biology
Culture adaptive
Culture is maladaptive
Culture changes
It is what a person has, does and thinks
Culture is everything
Two types of culture
Material Culture
Non-Material Culture
Tangible parts of culture where globalization asert
Material Culture
Intangible parts of culture where knowledge values and norms shapes humans inequity
Non-Material Culture
Process of growing independence by borderless free trading
Globalization
Set of beliefs, traditions and custom are being learned from different members in the society
Culture is learn
Types of learning culture
Enculturation
Acculturation
Deculturation
set of belief,behavior and norms are part of a greater collection of values in the society
Culture is shared
You are trying to learn the culture that is native to you
Enculturation
Learning culture that is not native to you
Acculturation
Lost of culture (adapt other culture)
Deculturation
To alter body to fit in the physiological norms dictated by the society
Culture affects Biology
Culture practices change due to the pressure from the environment
Culture adaptive
Culture remain the same despite of pressure from the environment
Culture is maladaptive
Culture is not static
Cultural changes
Complex tool
Culture
who said the culture consist of food, traditions, art, history, beliefs, values and norms
Edward tylor
That a man can acquire or learn from society
edward tylor
own beliefs are superior
ethnocentrism
Other beliefs are superior
Xenocentrism
Tries to understand each and every culture
Culture relativism
We need each other
social beings
Social interactions are not instinctive
Culture beings
Freedom (we still have limitations)
Human as social and cultural beings
Image or sign that carries meaning
Symbols
Set of ideas being shared in one community (example: Familism)
Values
Statements that are considered factual or true
beliefs
Standard/ expected behavior
Norms
Moral act for others, immoral for you (vice versa)
Mores
Enacted to protect people
Laws
Can be easily broken
Folkways
Any asoect is forbidden (ex: Cannibalism)
Taboos-Immoral
Elements of culture
Symbols
Laws
Beliefs
Norms