ANTH 1003 Chapter : 29-Jan
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Involve the use of language, classification system and symbols: made up of learned behavior, patterned, integrated and shared by members of a group, adaptive and subject to change. Characteristics of culture: learned behavior: almost every aspect of our lives is layered with learning, we learn continuously and throughout life, but it. Team mascots: lsu tiger, lsu, football, mac and pc, tools for phone or internet, should not matter but it does. Organic analogy: comparison of societies to living organisms, strengths, allows us to understand society as composed of different elements. Implies that anthropologists should describe these elements and the ways that change in one effect the others: weaknesses. Implies that properly functioning societies should be stable and conflict-free: not possible. In socially stratified societies, different groups have different interests and this creates conflict. Dominant culture: subculture: a system of perceptions, beliefs, values, and customs that are significantly different from those of a larger, dominand, dominant culture:
