S W 327 Lecture 7: The Cultural Environment
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Identify and list different elements associated with the definition of culture: demonstrate an understanding of the culture concept through direct application. Cultural reference values: culture has, emotional (ethos how we feel about the world, cognitive (worldview we think about the world) components. Cultural references meaning: culture includes the construction of meanings associated with the social, natural, and material world. Cultural references interaction: culture is learned through social interaction. What culture is not: culture is not ethnicity, ethnicity: historically and politically situated sets of identity practices, ethnicity does not emerge as a unique term in the united states until the. 1950s: ethnicity was used in the us to ascribe cultural identities to groups of people assumed to share cultural, historical, or evolutionary pasts. Toward a definition of culture: shared cognitive and emotional frames, or lenses, that serve as the basis for an evolving blueprint for living.
