AHRM 1204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Body Modification, Eurocentrism, Ethnocentrism

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management
• Course: AHRM 1204
• Professor: Lu Ann Gaskill

Document Summary

Culture- human-made material items and patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors shared by members of a group who regularly interact with each other. Can be as small as a computer chip, or as large as a highway system and everything inbetween. As specific as the meaning of a shape (stop sign) Enculturation- learning the cultural ways that are taught to members of the group in which they are raised. Me and american culture- was born and raised in it and taught the ways of it. Microcultures- subcultures, smaller sections or groups in a large society. One big culture that splits on their views. Society- group of individuals who interact with one another based on the sharing of many beliefs and ways of behavior. Overlapping social structures become aware of the material and nonmaterial culture of the other. Adopt some of it in a process like enculturation.