ANTHR 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Margaret Mead, High Culture, Shared Experience
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Culture a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, shared, and contested by a group of people. Culture is never static constantly allowing arenas for challenging, debating, and. 4 common cultural cores: changing core cultural beliefs and behaviors. Norms ideas or rules about how people should behave in particular situations or toward certain people (many norms are not written down) Values fundamental beliefs about what is important, what makes a good life, and what is true, right, and beautiful. Symbols anything that represents something else (in realms such as language, art, religion, politics, and economics) Mental maps of reality cultural classifications of what kinds of people and things exist, and the assignment of meaning to those classifications. Mental maps assign meaning to what has been classified. A culture creates a concept such as time identify culture and can identify it. Explicit culture when we have shared understanding and knowledge on.
