CULTURE [pic] SOME DEFINITIONS • Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge‚ experience‚ beliefs‚ values‚ attitudes‚ meanings‚ hierarchies‚ religion‚ notions of time‚ roles‚ spatial relations‚ concepts of the universe‚ and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. • Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people. • Culture is communication‚ communication
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62 NAT: AACSB: Tier 1 Communication; Tier 2 Environmental Influence Informal institutions are based on the rules and legal systems of an economy. PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 63 NAT: AACSB: Tier 1 Communication; Tier 2 Legal Responsibilities 3. Ethnocentrism is the quality of a society that perceives its own culture‚ ethics‚ and norms as natural‚ rational‚ and morally right. ANS: T OBJ: 3.1 4. ANS: F OBJ: 3.1 5. ANS: F OBJ: 3.1 6. ANS: T OBJ: 3.1 PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: p. 63 NAT: AACSB: Tier 1 Diversity;
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List of Concepts covered in Class each Week Fall Semester Week 3 - Chapter 2: relativism‚ cultural evolution‚ enculturation‚ acculturation‚ power distance‚ masculinity/femininity‚ tolerance for ambiguity‚ individualism/collectivism‚ high & low context cultures‚ intercultural comm. competence‚ stereotypes‚ ethnocentrism‚ stages of culture shock‚ any of the concepts covered in the Japanese communication patterns Blackboard article. Week 4 – Chapter 3: self-concept‚ self-awareness‚ self-esteem
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societies are also a contributor because they aren’t doing anything to stop it from happening. All of these groups are different but work together to make this practice widely accepted and common. To label the Americans views on FGM as ethnocentrism isn’t completely accurate‚ but the intervention to discourage this practice
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Film Response on Mending Ways: The Canela Indians of Brazil The film that I choose to do a respond on is the film “Mending Ways: The Canela Indians of Brazil.” In the film‚ the anthropologist‚ Dr. William H. Crocker from the Smithsonian Institute of Anthropologist studied the Canela tribe for over 30 years. The film is divided into two parts which is the first is about how he studied the tribe and its culture. A few years later‚ merely about 20 years‚ he studied the change in the community which
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Ch. 2 Characteristics of Culture The Concept of Culture Culture is Learned Culture is Shared Culture is Based on Symbols Culture Gives Meaning to Reality Functions of Culture Culture and Change Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism What is Culture? Superstructure: Superstructure A culture’s worldview‚ including morals and values‚ oftentimes grounded in religion Social structure: structure The rule-governed relationships—with all their rights and obligations—that hold members of a society
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Anthr 110 Gender‚ Age and Culture Instructor: François Larose Study Questions Fall 2012 Instructions: In preparation for the exams‚ here is a list of study questions for each chapter. What you need to know from the text is covered in these questions. For all these chapters‚ you need to be familiar with the definitions (technical terms) highlighted in the text. Also‚ while there will be no direct questions on the grey boxes in these chapters‚ I strongly suggest you read them. They provide
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In the article “Slumber’s Unexplored Landscape‚” by Bruce Bower the focus is on the sleep customs and patterns of indigenous/traditional societies in comparison to the more recent sleep developments of the western world. As noted in the article the sleep rituals of these traditionals societies have rarely been explored over time‚ however‚ through the collaboration of seven other researchers Carol M. Worthman‚ (one of the highlighted anthropologist exploring the styles of sleeps in non western parts
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behaviorism that locates the causes of human behavior in a realm that is totally beyond human control. CULTURAL RELATIVISM * Different cultural groups think‚ feel‚ and act differently. There is no scientific standards for considering one group as intrinsically superior or inferior to another. Studying differences in culture among groups and societies presupposes a position of cultural relativism. It does not imply normalcy for oneself‚ nor for one’s society. It‚ however‚ calls for judgment when dealing
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perspective to understand human culture and what it means to be human * The working definition: the empirical comparative study of humans as biological and cultural beings‚ informed by the overarching principles of cultural relativism and by the avoidance of ethnocentrism * Four Traditional Fields of Anthropology * Physical anthropology * Also known as biological anthropology. Examines the biological and behavioral characteristics of humans and nonhuman primates‚ including
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