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Definitions
Culture:
Those qualities and attributes that seem to be
characteristic of all humankind.
Society:
A group of people who have learned to live
and work together.
Nature of Culture
Culture is a group phenomenon.
Cultures evolve from the interaction of
person with others, and a persons belief
or behavior becomes part of the culture
when it is externalized and objectified.
Tools
Human reproduction
Cloning
Territoriality
Tendency of people to seek and maintain
a territory.
The definition of spatial and interactional
territories is paramount feature of any
culture.
Refers to the cultural ways people locate
themselves in their universe and establish
the boundaries of their various human
systems.
Qualities of a Society
Culture is that complex whole that
includes knowledge, belief, art, law,
morals, custom, and any other capabilities
and habits acquired by a human being as
a member of society.
Culture is viewed as the ways of doing,
being, and explaining, as they exist in
each particular system.
Tools
Amplifiers of human capacities:
Sensory capacity
Motor capacity
Reasoning and thinking capacity
Social Organizations:
Society and Roles
All cultures, being social systems, have
organization.
Three aspects operating to define social class:
Economic status
Social status
Political power
Attitudes
Values
Behavior
Parent
Child
Worker
Voter
Worshipper
Language
Transfer of meaning between systems and
between subsystems.
Composed of symbols and the meanings
are learned and transferred through social
interaction.
Communication of symbols and their
meanings represents the major form of
transaction between systems.
Child Rearing
A major task of any culture.
As a culture becomes more complex and
Social Relations:
Caring
Cultures are marked by the style in which
they conduct social relationships.
Caring involves both an emotional
disposition and caring labor.
It is a practice in which both thought and
action are integrated around central aims
or goals.
Caring is a dimension of culture as much
as tools and language.