Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Chapter 6: Cultural Theory & Material Culture
- Clotaire Rapaille & Culture Codes
- Culture is a series of codes that we learn while we grow
up & that shape our behavior in many different areas.
- Imprints: most central beliefs & attitudes in the
culture or subculture in which children raised.
- Why do we act the way we do?
- "cultural" unconscious
- Culture code concept: every artifact reflects certain national, cultural, or
subcultural attitudes & values that have been imprinted on young children
growing up in a given culture.
- The codes often suggest "correct"
combination of foods & other objects.
- Mary Douglas & Grid-Group Theory
- The objects & services that we
buy & possess are culturally
defined and best understood as
being tied to our lifestyles.
- shopping
- purchasing things
- Lifestyles
- fatalist
- egalitarian
- individualistic
- elitist
- Grid-group theory
- strength of boundaries
- rules & prescriptions
- Myth & Material Culture
- The Myth Model & Material Culture
- Mark Gottdiener on Cultural Studies
- cultural objects
- institutions
- social groups
- Culture
- Many cultural values & beliefs
are incorporated into or
reflected by material culture.
- Culture is concerned with the
production & exchange of meanings
... between the members of a society or group (S. Hall)
- Anthropology: the study of human beings.
It is a scientific studyof the physical, social,
and cultural development of man.
- cultural anthropology deals with the analysis of
social life & the relationshipbetween culture &
personality
- linguistic anthropology focuses on language
- Archaeology: branch of anthropology that studies
the past by using ancient artifacts & other materials
- Anthropological theory: central
concept - cultiure; the role culture
plays in creation & use.