SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Heredity, Christian Fundamentalism, Ethnocentrism
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Culture is easier described by description than definition. You can see it in jewellery, makeup, hair, language, gestures, beliefs, and opinions. Culture focuses on attributes people acquire not through biological inheritance but by growing up in a distinct community. Material culture: jewellery, art, buildings, weapons, machines, untensils, hair, clothing-- provide a sharp contrast to what canadian used to be. Non material cultures: ways of thinking (beliefs, values, other assumptions) and doing (common patterns of behaviour, language, gestures) Symbolic culture: also known as nonmaterial culture, one of its central components is symbols people use to communicate. Learning depends on the human capacity to use symbols that have no necessary connection to the things they signify. Gestures: using the body to communicate with others without words. Other cultures use different gestures and same ones can mean something different to another culture. All human groups possess it, but there is nothing universal about the meanings given to particular sounds.
