AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Subculture, Edward Burnett Tylor, Cultural Relativism
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Tylor (1871): that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. Haviland (1999): the ideals, values, and beliefs members of a society share to interpret experience and generate behaviour and that are reflected by their behaviour. Characteristics of culture: 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 culture. Subculture: a distinctive set of standards and behaviour patterns for a group within a larger society. Pluralistic societies contain several distinct cultures and subcultures. They are common in the world today. Canada is a cultural mosaic of ethnic subcultures.
