culture it touches almost every aspect of who and what we are
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Culture
It touches almost every aspect of who and what we are
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Culture Orientation
Have you ever experienced culture shock?
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What is culture?
Culture The language, beliefs, values, norms,
behaviors, even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next
Who has traveled somewhere and seen different cultures based on this definition?
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Material vs. Non-material
Material culture: jewelry, art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing
Non-material culture: a group’s way of thinking (including beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing (it's common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction)
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Material vs. Non-material
How do the two distinguish culture, please provide me with a few examples!
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Establishment of culture
Culture comes to us at a very early age and acquire it without conscious
It creates assumptions about social life in context to others’ cultures Creates the “way things ought to be” idea
Examples might include hygiene, eye contact, personal space, etc.
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Culture Shock
Culture shock emerges when non-material culture fails one’s self Story example of the author being taller
and pushing to buy tickets and felt bad about it
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Ethnocentrism
Tendency to use one’s own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individual or societies.
It generally leads to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors leading to discrimination
On the positive side, it can create in-group loyalties
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Cultural Shock Exercise
Listen to the following excerpt on the arrival of the Hmong and answer the question for your consideration after
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Cultural Relativism
Culture is deeply rooted It is by definition: not judging a culture
but trying to understand it on its own terms
Bullfighting in Spain example
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Culture Diversity Exercise
You are what you eat!
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Symbolic Culture
Symbols help us attach meaning ABC’s, 123’s Include gestures,
values, norms,
sanctions, folkways
and more
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Gestures
Using your body to convey messages hand and body gestures have
different meanings in different cultures By show of hands, how many of you are
left-handed? What about the “A-OK” sign… what does
that mean?
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Language
Symbols the can be combined in an infinite number of ways for the purpose of communicating abstract thought
Language allows culture to exist! Consider the following…
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Language (cont.)
It allows human experience to be cumulative Builds on experiences and modify
behaviors in light of past generations Without language we would not be any
more advanced then by grunts and gestures
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Norms and Values
Values are ideas of what is desirable in life and by which people define what is good and bad
They guide our choices The golden rule is universal What other values are universal?
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Norms
Norms are used to describe expectations that develop out of a groups’ norms
Sanctions help show expressions of approval or disapproval for following or breaking norms Homework and MAT…
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Sanctions
Non-verbal sanctions Frowns, stares, raised fists, finger
gestures
Verbal sanctions Harsh words, censorship
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Subcultures
What condition is this doctor describing?? [It accompanies] diaphragmatic pleurisy, pneumonia,
uremia, or alcoholism…Abdominal causes include disorders of the stomach, and esophagus, bowel diseases, pancreatitis, pregnancy, bladder irritation, hepatic metastases, or hepatitis. Thoracic and mediastinal lesions, or surgery may be responsible. Posterior fossa tumors or infarcts my stimulate centers of the medulla oblongata.
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Subcultures
Hiccups!
Definition of subculture is the values and related behaviors of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture, a world within a world
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Subcultures
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Subcultures
A world within the larger world of the dominant culture
What subcultures are there at Howard High School?
What other subcultures are you aware of?
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Counterculture
Consider the following quote about sterilization
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Counterculture
A group whose
values, beliefs,
and related
behaviors place its
members in
opposition to the
broader culture
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U.S. Values
Sociologist Robin Williams identified in a study underlying core values 14 different values most Americans can agree with
Which ones do you think are most important?
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Thinking Critically
Sociobiology
Framework of thought that views human behavior as the result of natural selection and considers biological factors to be the fundamental cause of human behavior