MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: White Privilege, Conspicuous Consumption, Stereotype
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Culture is simply what human beings produce and the means by which we preserve what we have produced. It is constructed, multi-faceted, and uniquely human: building blocks of culture fall into roughly three forms. Physical artifacts: any material aspects of daily life that possess widely shared meanings and manifest group identification to us. Social if artifacts are the products of our shared lives, then customers are our shared, lived experiences. Attitudinal our customs, laws, and traditions reflect particular ways of understanding the world. Attitudes display the overarching ways a particular culture makes sense of the world and itself: culture is collective. Culture must be shared among a group of people: culture is rhetorical. Culture is sustained and transmitted exclusively through the words and images that carry significance for members of the culture: culture is historical. It changes evolves, mutates, fades, and even disappears over time: culture is ideological.
