Introduction To Culture Flashcards
What Latin root word does the word “culture” come from
Cultus
What is culture in a narrow sense
Trained and refined state of knowledge, manners, and tastes.
What is the broad definition of culture?
Is that complex whole which includes knowledge belief, art, customs, and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
This definition advocates the idea that everyone can have culture.
What is the simple definition of culture?
Those things learned, shared, and transmitted.
Humans are born with the capacity to obtain culture.
Enculturation
Process of social interaction through which people learn and acquire their culture.
Why are the three forms of learning in which enculturation takes place?
Situational learning
Social learning
Symbolic learning
Situational learning
Trial and error type of learning.
The organism adjusts its behavior on the basis of direct experience.
“Learning what is good and bad”
Social learning
One organism observes another organism respond to a stimulus and then adds that response to its own collection of behaviors.
Symbolic learning
Learning though the use of symbols.
Symbols
Arbitrary meaningful units or models we use to represent reality.
Culture transmission
The process of passing on a culturally relevant knowledge skills attitudes from one individual to another.
What are the three main components of culture?
Mental
Behavioral/social
Material
Mental component of culture.
Attitudes, values, believes, and knowledge that people share.
Behavioral/social component of culture
How to greet, how to eat, how to interact with people.
Material component of culture
Material manifestations of culture.
Things that people make or build.
