Wedding Rings
Token of Love- the shiny “pricey” little thing
Wedding Ring
Culture is a way of life. It is something that refers to the expressive side of human life. It can be an object, a behavior, a symbol, interpretation or belief. Culture is that invisible bond that ties people of certain community together. It is a system of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people. It is an accumulated experience which is socially transmitted. Culture consists of patterns and is passed from generation to generation. Culture is important because it gives an individual a unique identity. It shapes the personality of community and gives them its characters of their own. Culture is an integral part of living. It is learned and passed from one generation to another. As I said, culture can be a symbol like language, art, or religion and those cultural values are transferred between generations. “Culture is seen as a system of social control, wherein people shape their standards and behavior.” (Unknown).
Cultural object is “a socially meaningful expression that is audible, visible, tangible, or can be articulated” (Griswold, 2008). As we said in class, a cultural object tells a story in many different ways. We are analyzing cultural objects to find out what our cultural object can tell us about our culture and society. It is difficult to make claims about culture as a whole but is not impossible. When analyzing cultural object we need to focus on the society “the world around” the object not just the object itself. Different people have different opinions and views about everything so when analyzing a cultural object it is very important to look at the things around it too.
I have chosen a wedding ring as my cultural object for many reasons. First of all, I’m married and I have one, second I’m from Europe (Poland) and over there people wear their wedding rings on their right hand finger. In United Stated people wear their wedding ring on left hand finger so people were constantly
Wedding Ring
Culture is a way of life. It is something that refers to the expressive side of human life. It can be an object, a behavior, a symbol, interpretation or belief. Culture is that invisible bond that ties people of certain community together. It is a system of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people. It is an accumulated experience which is socially transmitted. Culture consists of patterns and is passed from generation to generation. Culture is important because it gives an individual a unique identity. It shapes the personality of community and gives them its characters of their own. Culture is an integral part of living. It is learned and passed from one generation to another. As I said, culture can be a symbol like language, art, or religion and those cultural values are transferred between generations. “Culture is seen as a system of social control, wherein people shape their standards and behavior.” (Unknown).
Cultural object is “a socially meaningful expression that is audible, visible, tangible, or can be articulated” (Griswold, 2008). As we said in class, a cultural object tells a story in many different ways. We are analyzing cultural objects to find out what our cultural object can tell us about our culture and society. It is difficult to make claims about culture as a whole but is not impossible. When analyzing cultural object we need to focus on the society “the world around” the object not just the object itself. Different people have different opinions and views about everything so when analyzing a cultural object it is very important to look at the things around it too.
I have chosen a wedding ring as my cultural object for many reasons. First of all, I’m married and I have one, second I’m from Europe (Poland) and over there people wear their wedding rings on their right hand finger. In United Stated people wear their wedding ring on left hand finger so people were constantly
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