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    This document discusses definitions and concepts of culture from several anthropologists and scholars. It provides definitions of culture as the complex whole of knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws and customs acquired by humans as members of society; as the pattern of life within a community including activities, arrangements, and symbols characteristic of a group; and as a framework of beliefs, symbols and values through which people make meanings and judgements. It also lists characteristics of culture such as it being learned, unconscious, shared, integrated, symbolic, dynamic and relative.

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    This document discusses definitions and concepts of culture from several anthropologists and scholars. It provides definitions of culture as the complex whole of knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws and customs acquired by humans as members of society; as the pattern of life within a community including activities, arrangements, and symbols characteristic of a group; and as a framework of beliefs, symbols and values through which people make meanings and judgements. It also lists characteristics of culture such as it being learned, unconscious, shared, integrated, symbolic, dynamic and relative.

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    This document discusses definitions and concepts of culture from several anthropologists and scholars. It provides definitions of culture as the complex whole of knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws and customs acquired by humans as members of society; as the pattern of life within a community including activities, arrangements, and symbols characteristic of a group; and as a framework of beliefs, symbols and values through which people make meanings and judgements. It also lists characteristics of culture such as it being learned, unconscious, shared, integrated, symbolic, dynamic and relative.

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    Concept of Culture

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    This document discusses definitions and concepts of culture from several anthropologists and scholars. It provides definitions of culture as the complex whole of knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws and customs acquired by humans as members of society; as the pattern of life within a community including activities, arrangements, and symbols characteristic of a group; and as a framework of beliefs, symbols and values through which people make meanings and judgements. It also lists characteristics of culture such as it being learned, unconscious, shared, integrated, symbolic, dynamic and relative.

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    The Concept of Culture

    Think of 10 ways in which we use the word culture or cultural. Eg. Culture shock, Canadian culture, multicultural

    Edward Burnett Tylor 1832-1917

    Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired my man as a member of society. E. B. Tylor 1871

    `The sum total of knowledge, attitudes and habitual behaviour patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a particular society'
    Ralph Linton (1940).

    The pattern of life within a community, the regularly recurring activities and material and social arrangements characteristic of a particular group'. Ward Goodenough (1957):

    Culture is the framework of beliefs, expressive symbols, and values in terms of which individuals define their feelings and make their judgements (Geertz 1957 American Anthropologist 59:32-54). `an historically transmitted pattern of meaning embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic form by means which men communicate' (Geertz 1973: 89). Cultures are traditions and customs, transmitted through learning, that form and guide the beliefs and behaviour of the people exposed to them.... Cultural traditions include customs and opinions developed over the generations about proper and improper behaviour (Kottak 2008)

    Culture is a way of life

    Material Objects

    Ideas Attitudes Behavior Patterns

    Values

    Everything that people have, think, and do as members of a society (Ferraro, 2008) Culture is Relative

    Dimensions of Culture
    Values Norms

    Ideas/Beliefs Attitudes/Worldviews
    Roles Symbols Traditions Artifacts

    Characteristics of Culture
    Culture is learned Culture is unconscious Culture is shared Culture is integrated Culture is Symbolic Culture is a way of life Culture is Dynamic Culture is Relative

    Culture is learned
    How do we learn our culture?

    Enculteration

    Culture is unconscious

    Culture is shared

    Should everyone use a deodorant?


    USA French Canada English Canada United Kingdom Italy France 89% 81% 77% 71% 69% 59%

    Culture is Relative

    Australia

    25%

    Such findings signal that Canadian values, ideas, and attitudes should not be relied upon when planning marketing forays into foreign consumer markets

    Culture is Integrated
    Economics Kinship

    Religion Medicine

    law

    Winston Blackmore has 26 wives and more than 100 children

    A wink or a twitch

    Culture is Symbolic

    Culture is Dynamic

    1896

    1918

    1924

    1935

    1955

    Why do humans have Culture?


    What is its function? To communicate - makes the actions of individuals intelligible to others A tool gives meaning to differences

    Identity
    Adaptive

    Can culture be maladaptive?

    Is Culture Public or Private?


    Ishi ?-1916

    What is society?

    Society
    `A distinct and relatively autonomous community whose members' mutual social relations are embedded in and expressed through the medium of culture'. `Any portion of a community regarded as a unit distinguishable by particular aims or standards of living or conduct'. i.e. culture `A group of people who occupy a specific locality and who share the same cultural traditions or culture.'

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