ARTSSCI 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Consumerism, Mass Marketing, Alexis De Tocqueville
6 Dec 2016
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A shared system of socially transmitted behavior that describes, defines, and guides people"s ways of life, communicated from one generation to the next. (matsumuto) The learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms and lifetime practices of a particular group that guides thinking, decisions, and actions in patterned ways. (who) The collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another. (hofstede) How is culture communicated and transmitted: orally (through family, educational systems, media. The compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole. (robertson) Globalizing the human experience: businesses, media, migration, disasters, governance (transnational organizations), art all act as both agents and products of change. Cultures are fixed, fundamentally different globalization leads to conflict. (huntingdon"s. Clash of civilizations: globalization reinforces culture; it is not something that can be changed.
