THE MEANING OF CULTURE 2-1
FOCUS QUESTION HOW DO YOU THINK SOCIETY AND CULTURE DIFFER?
VIDEO 3: CULTURE TAKE OUT A SHEET OF PAPER LABEL THE PAPER “ VIDEO 3: CULTURE” PUT YOUR NAME IN THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER BE PREPARED TO WATCH THE VIDEO AND TAKE NOTES. YOU WILL NEED AT LEAST INTERESTING FACTS FROM THE VIDEO DON’T JUST PUT DOWN 1-2 WORDS AND EXPECT ME TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO. USE COMPLETE SENTENCES.
VIDEO 3 -CULTURE /3_-_CULTURE.WMV /3_-_CULTURE.WMV
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE TERM CULTURE, AND HOW DO MATERIAL CULTURE AND NONMATERIAL CULTURE DIFFER? WHAT ARE THE BASIC COMPONENTS OF CULTURE?
WHAT IS CULTURE? CULTURE IS THE TOTALITY OF LEARNED, SOCIALLY TRANSMITTED CUSTOMS, KNOWLEDGE, MATERIAL OBJECTS, AND BEHAVIOR. CULTURE INCLUDES THE IDEAS, VALUES, CUSTOMS, AND ARTIFACTS OF GROUPS OF PEOPLE SOCIOLOGICALLY, CULTURE DOES NOT REFER TO FINE ARTS OR INTELLECTUAL TASTE
CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE CULTURE IS SHARED CULTURE IS LEARNED CULTURE IS TAKEN FOR GRANTED CULTURE IS SYMBOLIC CULTURE VARIES ACROSS TIME AND PLACE
CULTURE IS… CONCRETE WE CAN OBSERVE CULTURAL PRACTICES THAT DEFINE HUMAN EXPERIENCE ABSTRACT IT IS A WAY OF THINKING, FEELING, BELIEVING, AND BEHAVING
Culture All shared products of human groups Non-Material Culture Abstract human creations Material Culture Physical objects that people create and use Examples Beliefs, family patterns, ideas, language, political and economic systems, rules Examples Automobiles, books, buildings, clothing, and computers
BASIC COMPONENTS OF CULTURE TECHNOLOGY SYMBOLS LANGUAGE VALUES NORMS
TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY CAN BE DEFINES AS USING THE MATERIAL RESOURCES OF THE ENVIRONMENT TO SATISFY HUMAN NEEDS AND DESIRES (NOLAN AND LENSKI, 1999) TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATES THE DIFFUSION OF SCIENTIFIC INNOVATIONS TECHNOLOGY TRANSMITS CULTURE
SYMBOLS SYMBOLS – ANYTHING THAT REPRESENT SOMETHING ELSE AND HAS A SHARED MEANING
LANGUAGE LANGUAGE IS AN ABSTRACT SYSTEM OF WORD MEANING AND SYMBOLS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF CULTURE IT INCLUDES SPEECH, WRITTEN CHARACTERS, NUMERALS, SYMBOLS, AND GESTURES AND EXPRESSIONS OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION SAPIR-WHARF HYPOTHESIS LANGUAGE PRECEDES THOUGHT LANGUAGE IS NOT A GIVEN LANGUAGE IS CULTURALLY DETERMINED
LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD There are an estimated 7,000 languages around the world! 46 languages have 1 registered speaker
LANGUAGE – NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IS THE USE OF GESTURES, FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, AND OTHER VISUAL IMAGES TO COMMUNICATE NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IS NOT THE SAME IN ALL CULTURES NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IS LEARNED
VALUES VALUES ARE OUR COLLECTIVE CONCEPTIONS OF WHAT IS GOOD, DESIRABLE, AND PROPER – OR BAD, UNDESIRABLE, AND IMPROPER – IN A CULTURE VALUES INFLUENCE PEOPLE’S BEHAVIOR VALUES ARE CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING ACTIONS OF OTHERS
NORMS NORMS ARE ESTABLISHED STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR MAINTAINED BY A SOCIETY TYPES OF NORMS FORMAL NORMS INFORMAL NORMS MORES FOLKWAYS ACCEPTANCE OF NORMS
ACTIVITY 1 – COMPONENTS OF CULTURE CREATE A MAP FOR THE 5 COMPONENTS OF CULTURE USE THE BRACKET (BRACE) MAP TO VISUALLY REPRESENT THE THOUGHT PROCESS YOU WILL NEED TO LIST THE 5 COMPONENTS AS THEY APPEAR AT FMHS
ACTIVITY 2 – NO SHARING WRITE A SHORT STORY OR CREATE A COMIC STRIP THAT ILLUSTRATES WHAT A SOCIETY MIGHT BE LIKE WITHOUT ONE SHARED COMPONENT OF CULTURE
FOLKWAYS, MORES, AND LAWS FOLKWAYS NORMS THAT DO NOT HAVE GREAT MORAL SIGNIFICANCE ATTACHED TO THEM – THE COMMON CUSTOMS OF EVERYDAY LIFE MORES NORMS THAT HAVE GREAT MORAL SIGNIFICANCE TO THEM LAWS WRITTEN RULES OF CONDUCT THAT ARE ENACTED AND ENFORCED BY THE GOVERNMENT. BY DEFINITION THE VIOLATION OF THESE NORMS IS CONSIDERED TO BE A CRIMINAL ACT
ACTIVITY 3 - NORMS LIST 20 NORMS AND INDICATE IF EACH IS A FOLKWAY, MORE, OR LAW
LEVELS OF CULTURE CULTURE TRAIT- INDIVIDUAL TOOL, ACT, OR BELIEF THAT IS RELATED TO A PARTICULAR SITUATION OR NEED CULTURE COMPLEX -CLUSTER OF INTERRELATED TRAITS CULTURE PATTERN – COMBINATION OF A NUMBER OF CULTURE COMPLEXES INTO AN INTERRELATED WHOLE