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What is Culture?

Polynesian

Burma Culture

Chinese Footbinding

Lip Rings Africa and Amazonian

Russian Culture

Indian Culture

Irish Culture

Native American Culture

German Culture

American Culture

Tattoo Culture

Amish Culture

Hippie Culture

Deaf Culture

Guinness World Book Culture

What is Culture? The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed down from one generation to the next. Do the above pictures define culture?

2 Types of Culture Material Culture the material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing and jewelry. Nonmaterial Culture A group’s way of thinking(including beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing. (Common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction.

Culture Patterns  recurring characteristics or events. We usually take our speech, our gestures, our beliefs, and our customs for granted. We assume that they are “normal” or “natural”, and we almost always follow them without question.

Culture “ The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water” (Ralph Linton 1936) Culture becomes the lens through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us. The rare instances in which these assumptions are challenged, however, can be upsetting. We have basic expectations of “the way people ought to be”

Culture To learn a culture is to learn people’s values, their ideas of what is desirable in life. Values  are the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly. Every group develops Norms  the expectations, or rules of behavior that reflect and enforce behavior.

Culture Sanctions  Either expressions of approval given to people for upholding norms or expressions of disapproval for violating them. Positive Sanction  A reward or positive reaction for following norms, ranging from a smile to a material reward. Negative Sanction  An expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild informal reaction such as a frown to formal reaction such as prison or execution.

Culture Because people can find norms stifling some cultures have times of moral holidays. (Mardi Gras) Locations can be moral holidays – (Red light districts) Time Periods (Vacations)

Culture Folkways  Norms that are not strictly enforced. (Not covering your mouth when you cough) Mores  Norms that are strictly enforced because they are thought essential to core values or the well-being of the group. (Stealing, Killing). Keep in mind that one group’s folkways may be another group’s mores. (nudist camp).

Culture Taboo  A norm so strong that it brings extreme sanctions and even revulsion if someone violates it. (Eating Human Flesh) These sanctions are severe and may include prison, banishment, or death.

Culture Shock Culture Shock The disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken for granted assumptions about life. When finding unfamiliar behaviors upsetting; when things violate your expectations of “the way people ought to be.”

Ethnocentrism Ethnocentrism  The use of one’s own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors. Has positives and negatives! (+) creates in group loyalties. (-) it can lead to discrimination

Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism  Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms. You may view bull fighting as wrong if your culture has no history of bullfighting. (US citizens may view raising bulls for the purpose of stabbing them to death in front of crowds that shout “Ole!” as wrong.) However, it must be viewed from the perspective of the culture in which it takes place – its history, folklore, ideas of bravery, and ideas of sex roles.

Symbolic Culture Language and Gestures