ANTHROP 2202H Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cultural Rights, Ethnocentrism, Public Culture
19 Aug 2016
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Chapter 2: what is culture, culture is learned. The social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across generations. A verbal or nonverbal sign that arbitrarily and by convention stands for something else, with which it has no necessary or natural connection. Learned directly, through observation or absorbed unconsciously: culture is symbolic. Verbal or nonverbal, within a particular language or culture, that comes to stand for something else: culture is shared. Transmitted in society providing us with common experiences. Certain fundamental values, beliefs, worldviews and child-rearing practices remain constant: culture and nature. Takes the natural, biological urges we share with animals and teaches us how to express them in particular ways: culture is all-encompassing. Encompasses features that are sometimes regarded as trivial or unworthy of serious study: culture is integrated. If one part of system changes, other parts change as well.
