Unit 1: Module 1.3 Enculturation

Question 1

Enculturation

Answer 1

Process of learning a culture

Question 2

Margaret Mead

Answer 2

American anthropologist. Wrote age in Samoa. Studied character development (parents and children), enculturation (seen in 2 year old bathing the baby), sexuality, and stereotypes. “Public Anthropologist” culture and personality historical particularism

Question 3

Socialization

Answer 3

Another form of enculturation focusing on culture via practices and social interactions. Can be formal (classroom) or informal (observing behaviors)

Question 4

Mental Maps

Answer 4

Remembering things in correlation with others.
Ways of classifying the world around you and assigning meaning to those categories.

Question 5

Norms

Answer 5

Ideas or rules about how people should behave

Question 6

Values

Answer 6

Fundamental beliefs about what makes a good life.

Question 7

Beliefs

Answer 7

Things we think are true with a lack of evidence/proof.

Question 8

Symbols

Answer 8

Object or event that is intrinsically unrelated to another thing or event to which it refers. Ex: 13 stripes represent 13 colonies

Question 9

Lancy Blacksmithing In West Africa

Answer 9

Formal learning of school. Apprenticeship is the middle group of formal and informal learning. 2 informal learning was through playing (testing out social roles and trying ideas without negative consequences) and observations (blacksmith located in the middle of the town).