HDFS 28000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Parenting, Community Ownership, Apache Hadoop
20 Sep 2016
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Culture refers to the unique experiences of various groups. Culture consists of the shared language, beliefs, behaviors, symbols, and traditions of a group. Culture is a dynamic process that impacts our interaction with others and is passed from generation to generation (sherif trask & hamon, 2007) Brunson phillips (1995: culture is a set of rules for behavior, culture is a characteristic of groups, culture is learned. Individuals are embedded to different degrees within a culture. A dynamic system of explicit and implicit standards shared by a group and transmitted across generations that allows the group to meet basic needs of survival, happiness and well-being, and derive meaning from life (matsumoto. National culture: learned behavioral patterns, beliefs" values, and institutions shared by the citizens of a nation. Subculture: a group with a distinct and consistent cultural system existing within a larger cultural context.
