ANT 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cultural Relativism, Random Assignment, Ethnocentrism
2 Feb 2017
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All individuals are unique but share a set of preferences, beliefs, and habits that characterize the society they live in. Material culture - houses, musical instruments, and tools that are the products of. Culture - the set of learned behaviors and ideas (including beliefs, attitudes, values, and, ideals) that are characteristic of a particular society or other social group customary behavior. Society - a group of people who occupy a particular territory and speak a common language not generally understood by neighboring peoples. By this definition, societies don"t necessarily correspond to countries. For a thought to be considered cultural, some social group most commonly share it. Subculture - the shared customs of a subgroup within a society. For something to be considered cultural, it must be learned as well as shared. Example: hair color, even if it is the same or typical, is not cultural.
