AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Enculturation, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism
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Week two slides an101: characteristics of culture, shared, learned, based on symbols, integrated, a: culture is shared, society. A group of people who have a common homeland, are interdependent, and share a common culture: social structure. Relationships between groups within a society that hold it together: cultural variation. Sex and gender: some differences exist in any human society between the roles of men and women. Age: children and adults act differently in all cultures. Subculture: a distinctive set of standards and behaviour patterns for a group within a larger society, pluralistic societies. Transmission of a societies culture from one generation to the next: c: culture is based on symbols, symbol. An object that stands for something else: the most important symbolic aspect of culture is language, d: culture is integrated, integration. Belief that one"s culture is superior to all others: cultural relativism.
