export_lecture 1 Flashcards
1
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3 parts to the definition of culture
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- culture emerges in adaptive interactions between humans and environments
- culture consists of shared elements
- culture is transmitted across time
2
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How do we determine if a culture is either the same or different?
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-assess double boundary; double boundary is when people of both sides (e.g. culture A and culture B) don’t understand each others’ culture
3
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What are the five type of transmission?
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- vertical
- horizontal
- oblique
- enculturation
- acculturation
4
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vertical transmission
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sharing from parent to child, generation to generation
5
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horizontal transmission
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within a generation, so between peers, peers influencing each other
6
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oblique transmission
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instructions that exist in society and are transmitted to a generation, are pre-existing intuitions in society that influence a generation
7
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enculturation (2)
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- process of transmitting cultural elements to others in one’s own community, serves as a source of continuity
- becoming accustomed to the practices and beliefs of the culture you are born into
8
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Acculturation (2)
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- another form of transmission that takes place from outside a person’s own group, serves as a source of discontinuity
- outside of a person’s own culture and this is a result of direct contact with another culture and interacting of another culture and adapting to the new culture and environment
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What are the challenges in studying culture? (7)
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- definition of culture varies among researchers
- boundaries are not clear cut; hence it is difficult to study culture as a separate thing when you cannot clearly see where one culture ends and another begins
- cultures change over time
- variability among individuals in same culture
- limited access to a wide range of cultures
- lost in translation-how might one measure concepts and models in a standardized way?
- language can be different from one another-culture A’s view of happiness may be different from culture B’s
