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What are the key concepts of culture and identity ?

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  • culture
  • norms
  • values
  • relative nature of norms and values
  • universal norms and values
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What is culture ?

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Refers to entire way of life of a particular society

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When considering culture what do you consider ?

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The whole system of behaviour and beliefs of a society or group

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Example of culture ?

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  • knowledge
  • art, music and fashion
  • costums
  • language
  • faith/religion
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What is diversity (variety) of cultures ?

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Culture vary hugely across the world

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How do we acquire our culture ?

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Form a variety of other people and social instituons such as family, media, peer, education

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What are values ?

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Beliefs and ideas that society sees as important and accepted by majority of society

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Examples of values ?

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Hygiene , loyalty , educational achievement, success , respect , knowledge

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What is norms ?

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Expected patterns of behaviour that are based on values of a culture

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What are examples of norms ?

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Listen , punctual , hygiene, manners , going to school

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What does it mean if norms and values of any culture are relative ?

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Means they are not fixed and they change

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In what terms can norms by relative ?

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Space and time , values are not the same for all people and situations

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Example of relative nature of norms and values

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  • wearing clothes in UK is norm in public however not a norm in the shower
  • in USA acceptable to conversate in public space e.g bus or queue but not in Britain
  • abortion and homosexuality use to be illegal in Britain but now acceptable
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What are those who do not follow norms and values considered ?

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Deviance

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What is deviance ?

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Behaviour that goes against norms is groups or a society

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What are the example of key study in which norms and values are relative across space and how culture can be diversed ?

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  • Hamar Tribe
  • the IK of Northern Uganda
  • Margret Mead : sex and Temperament in three primitive societies
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What is hamar tribe ?

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  • in Ethiopia
  • has rich culture in ceremony and ritual
  • to reach adulthood men must leap onto backs of cattle’s and run across them
  • women are whipped before ceremony to prove their devotion to men
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Where is hamar tribe at ?

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Ethiopia

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What do men do in hamar tribe to represent adulthood ?

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Jump onto backs of cattle and run across them

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What happens to women in Hamar tribe ?

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Whipped before ceremony to prove devotion to men

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What is the hamar tribe rich in ?

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Culture ceremony and rituals

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What is the IK of northern Uganda ?

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  • family is not important part of society for the IK means very little
  • due to IK that face a daily struggle to survive in drought, famine and starvation
  • anyone who cannot take care of themselves are seen as burden and hazard to survival of others
  • children seen as useless like old people
  • old , sick and disabled are abandoned to die
  • children throw out of village to fend for themselves
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How if family regarded in IK ?

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Not important part of society

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Why is family not regarded as important in IK ?

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Face daily struggles to survive drought, famine and starvation

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How are those who cannot take care of themselves regarded as in IK ?

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Burden and hazard to survival of others

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How are children regarded in IK ?

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Like old people abandoned to die, like sick and disabled children

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What happens to children around the age of 3 ?

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Mothers throw them out of village to fend for themselves

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Key study: sex and temperant in three primitive societies - Margret mead

Who is Margret Mead ?

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American anthropologists

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Key study: sex and temperant in three primitive societies - Margret mead

Where did Margret Mead study ?

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Several tribal cultures in Samoa and New Guinea

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Key study: sex and temperant in three primitive societies - Margret mead

What did Mead study ?

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Male and female behaviors and gender role expectations in different tribes

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Key study: sex and temperant in three primitive societies - Margret mead

What did Mead find from study ?

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Very different from gender role expectations in different tribes

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Key study: sex and temperant in three primitive societies - Margret mead

What did Mead find out of Arapesh tribe ?

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Both males and females were gentle and cooperative

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Key study: sex and temperant in three primitive societies - Margret mead

What did she find in Mundugumor ?

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Both genders were violent and agressive

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Key study: sex and temperant in three primitive societies - Margret mead

How was gender role in Tchambuli ?

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Women were dominant and aggressive and not involved in childbearing
- whereas men were timid , emotionally dependent and decorating themselves
- Agressive men was abnormal

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