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Mind Map by Fernanda Ramirez, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Fernanda Ramirez
almost 5 years ago
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What is culture?
- Culture is manifested at different layers of depth
- observable artifacts,
- “how” a group constructs its
environment and “what” behaviour
patterns are discernible among the
members,
- “how” a group constructs its
environment and “what” behaviour
patterns are discernible among the
members,
- values
- why members behave the
way they do
- why members behave the
way they do
- basic underlying
assumptions
- how group members perceive,
think and feel. Such assumptions
are themselves learned responses
that originated as espoused
values
- how group members perceive,
think and feel. Such assumptions
are themselves learned responses
that originated as espoused
values
- observable artifacts,
- Culture affects behaviour and interpretations of behaviour
- certain aspects of culture are
physically visible, but, their meaning is
invisible.
- certain aspects of culture are
physically visible, but, their meaning is
invisible.
- Culture can be differentiated from both universal
human nature and unique individual personality
- Human nature
- is what all human beings have in
common.
- is what all human beings have in
common.
- Personality
- Is a unique personal set of mental
programs which is not share with any
other human being.
- Is a unique personal set of mental
programs which is not share with any
other human being.
- Human nature
- Culture influences biological processes
- Responses to biological needs (that is,
eating, coughing, defecating) are frequently
influenced by culture.
- Responses to biological needs (that is,
eating, coughing, defecating) are frequently
influenced by culture.
- Culture is associated with social groups
- Culture is shared by at least two or more people. Everyone is
simultaneously a member of several different cultural groups
and thus could be said to have multicultural membership.
- Culture is shared by at least two or more people. Everyone is
simultaneously a member of several different cultural groups
and thus could be said to have multicultural membership.
- Culture is both an individual construct
and a social construct
- Culture exists in each and every one of us individually as much
as it exists as a global, social construct.
- Culture exists in each and every one of us individually as much
as it exists as a global, social construct.
- Culture is always both socially and
psychologically distributed in a group, and so
the delineation of a culture’s features will
always be fuzzy
- Group members are unlikely to share
identical sets of attitudes, beliefs and so
on, but rather show ‘family resemblances’.
- Group members are unlikely to share
identical sets of attitudes, beliefs and so
on, but rather show ‘family resemblances’.
- Culture has both universal (etic) and distinctive
(emic) elements
- Humans have largely overlapping biologies and live in
fairly similar social structures and physical
environments, which create major similarities in the way
they form cultures.
- Humans have largely overlapping biologies and live in
fairly similar social structures and physical
environments, which create major similarities in the way
they form cultures.
- Culture is learned
- Culture is learned from the people you
interact with as you are socialized.
Watching how adults react and talk to new
babies is an excellent way to see the actual
symbolic transmission of culture among
people.
- Culture is learned from the people you
interact with as you are socialized.
Watching how adults react and talk to new
babies is an excellent way to see the actual
symbolic transmission of culture among
people.
- Culture is subject to gradual change
- Any anthropological account of the culture of any
society is a type of snapshot view of one particular
time.
- Any anthropological account of the culture of any
society is a type of snapshot view of one particular
time.
- The various parts of a culture are all, to some degree, interrelated
- Cultures are coherent and logical systems, which particular
components may be related to other components
- Cultures are coherent and logical systems, which particular
components may be related to other components
- Culture is a descriptive not an
evaluative concept
- culture is not something exclusive
to certain members; rather it relates
to the whole of a society
- culture is not something exclusive
to certain members; rather it relates
to the whole of a society
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