Anthropological Perspectives Flashcards
Refers to a system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning and that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another.
Culture
Culture is _____, ______, _____, _____, and _____`
Learned, shared, symbolic, integrated and adaptive
In a process called enculturation, one learns about culture from birth and makes use of it in interacting with others.
Culture is an ongoing event
In a social environment people experience enculturation.
Culture is an ongoing event
It is instrumental in ensuring human survival through promoting cooperation and imposing punishment or social sanctions for those who violate social rules.
Culture is learned, shared, symbolic, and integrated
Its elements, including ideas, experiences, events, facilitate its survival and transmission from generation to generation.
Culture is complex
Also, it plays a significant role in transmitting traditions and practices and in recognizing behaviors and innovations that greatly contribute to the betterment of society.
Culture is learned, shared, symbolic, and integrated
Cultural symbols have the same meaning for people in a group or community.
Culture is an ongoing event
They may be verbal or nonverbal behaviors, sounds, objects, or images. As individuals interact with one another, symbols are produced and learned, and they become significant.
Culture is an ongoing event
Thus, identities are multifaceted products of cultural adaptation.
Culture is learned, shared, symbolic, and integrated
They are shaped by not only individual perceptions of the self, but also what ancestors transmitted through generations and the learnings shared in a social environment.
Culture is learned, shared, symbolic, and integrated
They may be verbal or nonverbal behaviors, sounds, objects, or images. As individuals interact with one another, symbols are produced and learned, and they become significant.
Culture is an ongoing event
It adapts to the social and environmental pressures through time and ensures its transmission to succeeding generations. It serves to bind people and ensure their survival. The social sanctions imposed in one’s culture are a way to ensure that the cultural values are being practiced.
Culture is a constantly evolving process
Human ancestors formed groups to ensure survival. They gave utmost importance to cooperation, which eventually reflected in various cultures. In an anthropological process, individuals identify with a group. Eventually, each one puts an effort to establish a self-identity.
Culture is a constantly evolving process
Culture, in general, has a large influence on the self. Feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are reflections of the culture that encompass others within the environment. The moment one is born, one is influenced by the cultural traditions and practices of parents who are also largely influenced by the broader cultural environment.
The culture factor
