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| how do people learn about culture |
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| culture is learned through interactions, culture is taught by the explanations people receive for the natural human events around them |
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| -culture exists in the minds of people and not just in external or tangible objects or behaviors |
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| A culture can form only if... |
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| symbolic ideas are shared with a relatively large group of people |
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| culture involves the sharing of... |
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1) beliefs
2) norms
3) values
4) social practices |
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| how does culture affect behavior? |
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| -it provides predictability in human interactions and a basis for forming expectations. Geographic location does determine a lot about culture however everyone expresses it differently no one is "typical" |
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| Culture involves larger groups of people |
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| -some would say small groups of people (work groups, a classroom of students) are a "culture" but they are not culture only describes a large societal level of organization. Culture is a very similar turn to ethnicity |
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a political term referring to a go'vt and a set of formal and legal mechanisms that regulate the political behavior of it's people not equalivient to the term culture
ex: a nation that has many cultures: US ! however they all are citizens of this nation |
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predominantly a political, legal, and social distinction. Often refers to physical appearance (although not only biological)
- we have this law that classifies what race someone is so you look at the politically and legally also cause law change
-race is more broad then culture and ethnicity |
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| -refers to variety of groups that share common language, religious traditions, nation state, cultural system, historica origins example: jews have a common ethnic identification even though they belong to widely varying cultures and are citizens of many different nations |
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| Subculture and problem with the term |
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refers to culture that exists in the midst of another large culture (African Americas, Latinos living in US)
"sub" makes it seem as if they are subordinate to the European americans |
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| Term was invented to replace the subculture term. To hide impilcation of hierarchy. But it also has a bad implications making it seem like "America=white" |
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-history
-ecology
-technology
-biology
-institutional networks
-interpersonal communication patterns |
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The unique history of a culture affects the development and maintenance of a culture. Descriptions of historical events transmitted across generations from the shared knowledge that guide a cultures collective action
Understanding what people have gone through will help understand what they want and don't want |
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-Refers to the external environment in which the culture lives (resources, climate, land formations)
-ecological conditions affect a cultures formation and functioning
-effects of a cultures ecology often hidden from its members because the climate and eviornment are such a constant force |
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| Refers to the inventions a culture has created or borrowed. Changes the avaiable thecnology can radically alter the balance and forces that maintain a cutlure and affect a cultures survival. |
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| any technologies that extend the ability to communicate beyond the limits of face to face encounters and allow humans to extend their sensory capabilitie, can also influence how people perceive others cultures |
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-This is to describe inherited characteristics and genetic composition cultural members share
-differences in biological traits often occurs in order to adapt to enviornment forces
-more variations within ones race then there is between different races
-race is an imperfect term for categorizing human population |
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-Formal organizations in societies that structure activities for large numbers of people (gov't education work religion)
-through the availability of new media, institutional networks can be created and sustained more readily.
-now with new technology these things can be sustained more readily
-religion is a important institutional network that binds people to one another and helps maintain cultural bonds |
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| primary agent for conveying verbal and nonverbal systems |
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| Intracultural communication |
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| communication from the same super culture but not the same subculture |
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| Interethic and interacial communication |
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| refers to communication between members of different racial or ethnic groups who live in the same nation state |
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| Cross cultural communication |
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| comparisons of interactions among people from the same culture to those from another culture by comparing attributes of interests |
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| International communication |
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| refers to interactions among people from different nation |
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