BUA 396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Invisible Hand, Acculturation, North American Free Trade Agreement
20 Jan 2016
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Culture: beliefs, values, practices, norms handbook understand us culture. What do you look at to understand the culture? no such thing as a cultural. Have to observe not possible to observe everyone in the us to. Our culture is so engrained in our everyday life and perceive world through our own cultural lens (invisible hand: food, clothing, rituals, artifacts, worldview in general) Culture satisfies needs: offers order, direction, and guidance. Food, clothing, needs vs. luxury, communication, belonging, and spiritual needs. Ecology in cities you have to adjust to having small space. Social structure institutions in a society (schools/daycare what age do. Acculturation: learning of a new or foreign culture. Ritual: something you do again and again in a sequence. Same language can still have different meanings behind them. New year"s and valentine"s day changes in countries. Sharing of culture: norms, ceremonies, cultural stories (myths (santa), fairy tales) Culture is dynamic: evolves because it fills needs.
