ANTH U102 Study Guide - Enculturation, Participant Observation, Subculture
16 Oct 2022
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How you learn the culture in which you are born and raised. True enculturation can only occur having been born into and raised within a culture. You can achieve a type of enculturation by moving to a new culture and learning their ways; however, you would never understand all the nuances the same as a native member. Is the symbolic vector of culture and also one way of many that it is shared from generation to generation. Members of a culture share ideology, behaviors and artifacts. Explicit culture is observable such as behaviors and material remains. Tacit cultural is unobservable and more subtle such as ideology. Homogenous is when a population shares cultural ideology, behaviors and artifacts. Heterogeneous is when the population has a great diversity of ideologies, behaviors and artifacts. This is found in large populations such as the us. When two cultures class over differences in cultural beliefs. This is most common with religion and political systems.
