ANTHR101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Melville J. Herskovits, Franz Boas, Qwerty
14 Mar 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Culture refers to the learned and shared behaviours, ideas, and charateristics of those people. Not outside of time, but within. culture can change over time. the culture of one people group today may not be the same for the exact same people group in a past or future setting. If only one person thinks or does a certain thing, that is a personal habit, not a pattern of culture. But individuals do not necessarily all think and act the same. individual variation is in face at major source of new culture. When everyone in a society shares these learned traits, we call it culture. when it is a smaller group within a larger society sharing learned traits, it is called a sub-culture. Although much is learned by trial and error and imitation (like monkeys and apes do), most human ideas are learned from others. So: something is cultural if it is a learned behaviour.
