HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mainstream, Religious Education In Primary And Secondary Education, Upper Class
17 May 2016
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We don"t always agree on what culture is. For this class: collective, common ways of doing, being, and understanding that are transmitted from one group member to another inter-generationally. Key concepts: not individual, culture frames how we think the world works, culture frames how we should behave, when we talk about cultures we are only talking about patterns they are not fixed. They are different to all people: culture can be like a language. Ideas of one culture are not always fully understood by people not belonging to the culture. Culture of cults, culture of cannibalism: you don"t just belong to one culture. Not all cultures have the same power (aren"t all valued the same: upper class wealthy cultures, mainstream christianity, medical culture, european. Just because it is the most dominant culture does not make it the correct culture. Cultures invites or creates illness: different diets (japanese = healthy, southern = unhealthy, career.
