Culture Civilization And Language Flashcards
What is culture?
The complex whole that includes knowledge, beliefs, morals, law, customs, opinions, religion, superstition, and arts.
How is culture acquired?
It is not genetically transmitted, but it is acquired by processes of imitation, teaching or learning.
What is the main purpose of culture?
The security and continuity of life.
How is “human life” achieved?
By the transformation of the natural enviroment
What’s the difference between human life and life?
Human life develops between the limits of culture
What’s the connection between language and culture?
Culture is not possible without language. Culture is based on the human capacity to classify experiences and to encode thel simbolically.
What does it mean that most human behaviours are language embedded?
Tjat the way we percieve the world and reality is largely mediated by our language
What is nature?
What is there, in the natural state
Why is culture “human effort”?
Because it is work to transform nature to make ir usable for human needs
Why is culture transmissible?
Because it is the product of the cumulative effort of mankind through the centuries and millennia.
What is the role of education in culture?
It allows the process of aporopiation of the cultural heritage
Why is culture dynamic?
Because it is in constant change
