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What is culture? The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning "to cultivate“. Culture refers to the universal human capacity to classify, and communicate their experiences symbolically.
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What is culture? Culture - has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behaviors and systems of belief.
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What is culture? A common way of understanding culture is to see it as consisting of four elements that are "passed on from generation to generation by learning alone": values norms institutions Artifacts.
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What is culture? Values comprise ideas about what in life seems important. (Fast write) What are the Values in the United States and why?
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What is culture? Norms consist of expectations of how people will behave in various situations. (Fast write) What are the norms in the United states?
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What is culture? Institutions are the structures of a society within which values and norms are transmitted. Fast write) What institution do you go to daily and show values and social norms?
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What is culture? Artifacts—things, or aspects of material culture derive from a culture's values and norms. Fast write) What artifact in your life describes you?
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The 9 Universals of Culture
What is culture? The 9 Universals of Culture Cultural universals are the elements, patterns, traits, or institutions that are common to all human cultures on our planet
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What is culture? Material Culture • Food
• Clothing and Adornment of the Body • Tools and Weapons • Housing and Shelter • Transportation • Personal Possessions • Household Articles
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Arts, Play, and Recreation
What is culture? Arts, Play, and Recreation • Forms of the Arts, Play, and Recreation • Folk Arts and Fine Arts • Standards of Beauty and Taste
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What is culture? Social Organization • Societies • Families
• Kinship Systems
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Language and Non-Verbal Communication
What is culture? Language and Non-Verbal Communication • Nonverbal Communication • Language • Other ways of Representing
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What is culture? Social Control
• Systems and Governmental Institutions Rewards and Punishments
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What is culture? Conflict and Warfare • Kinds of Conflict
• Kinds of Warfare • Defence Systems • Practices of Warfare • Conflict • Conflict Resolution
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What is culture? Education • Informal Education • Formal Education
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What is culture? Worldview • Belief Systems • Religion • Spirituality
• Values
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Economic Organization
What is culture? Economic Organization • Systems of Trade and Exchange • Producing and Manufacturing • Property • Division of Labor • Standard of Living
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What is culture? Today you have learned the 4 basic elements of culture and the 9 universals of culture.
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