ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Culture Shock, Enculturation, Hutterite
28 Dec 2013
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Cultures have one thing in common: each are a collection of people cooperating to ensure their collective survival and well-being. Culture sets the limits of behavior and guides it along predictable paths. Culture: the shared ideals, values, and beliefs that people use to interpret experience and generate behaviour and that are reflected by their behaviour. Enables people to adapt to a wide range of environments and circumstances. Provides means for production and distribution of goods and services considered necessary for life. Teaches children appropriate behaviour to become adults. Maintains order, motivates members to survive and engage and find meaning in life. Culture must be able to change if it is to remain adaptive. Culture shock: the shock, confusion and insecurity that many people feel when living in an unfamiliar culture. Reverse culture shock occurs when anthropologists or others returning to their native culture must put aside all they have learned and readjust to their home culture.
