CTD 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spandex, Enculturation

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Clothing, Textiles and Interior Design
• Course: CTD 446
• Professor: Dr.Thompson

Document Summary

Enculturation: learning the cultural ways that are taught to members of the group, how to sit, how to interact with older or younger people in a culture, appropriate dress for a situation. Concept of culture evolved: 19th century: material culture focus, 20th century: developed non-material concepts. Social aspects: beliefs and values: end of 20th century: merged 19th and 20th centuries together. Used concepts of culture to examine how ideas are represented by material objects. Culture: significance of various material and nonmaterial things arise from them being shared by a group, also, important how a thing is made and used and looks, cultures usually made of many different subculture groups. Example of a subculture: bicycling clubs, spandex, bright colors, dressing alike. Small know everyone, interact with everyone. Large less contact, indirect through media, cultures within. Example: small town: diasporas are created. Implications for dress: small: egalitarian, dress communicates age, completion of rights (native american)