ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Acculturation, The Big Questions, Enculturation

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Thomas Chivens

Document Summary

Culture is: learned : a process of enculturation that starts at birth, learning the cultural norms. There has to be a sense of the shared aspect because, if culture is symbolic, then it has to be shared to be understood. Culture is all encompassing: not based on low and high culture. Culture is integrated: this means that parts of cultural life tend to intersect. Religious beliefs, family structures, concepts of work, other aspects of identity, are interwoven: this also means that a change in one part of culture often produces a change in other parts of culture. Culture is law-like, but it is not the law . Can be made into formal law, i. e. local mobility, statewide kinship: ann arbor ordinances: Stop for pedestrians in crosswalk - attempting to change cultural driving behavior. There are 3 different cultural zones within ann. Arbor when it comes to driving and pedestrians. 5 feet between bikers and drivers: michigan marriage law in transition: