SOSA 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Applied Anthropology, Making Money, Enculturation

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Sociol & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1002
• Professor: Liesl Gambold

Document Summary

Readings: fedorak, chapter 2 and tannen, conversation style: talking on the job. The way our ancestors did things which impacts what we"re doing today. How a speci c group of society acts or thinks. The kinds of social rules or norms that people have. Culture or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society (eb taylor, Culture is the learned and shared knowledge that people use to generate behaviour and interpret experience (spradley) The learned, shared understanding among a people about how to behave and what everything means (omojundro) Culture is everything a people have, think, or do. The shared ideals, values, and beliefs that people use to interpret, experiences, and generate behaviour. Culture is shared, learned, based on symbols (e. g. language), and integrated (fedorak p. 206).