IS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Learning, Enculturation, Trans-Cultural Diffusion
1 Dec 2017
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Introduction to anthropology: culture, human capacity to differentiate, categorize the world of experience, assign meanings to the categories, common sense, unstated assumptions shared amongst communities, cultural misunderstandings, different common senses amongst different groups. Intercultural relations: flows of symbols across the global landscape, cultural misunderstandings in an international milieu, complexities of many beliefs or common senses, misunderstandings occur, both sides may be correct but have different points of view, misunderstandings. What is culture: humans generate meanings or models to understand the world around them, culture is a learned system of meanings through which people orient themselves, symbolic, shared, learned, adaptive. Ideology: mobilization of cultural symbols to, creates inequities, sustain inequities, resist inequities, generation of similarity, establish common beliefs in a community, organization of difference, effort to regulate behavior according to ideology. Culture is learned: enculturation: passing on culture to new generations, formal learning (institution) Informal learning (watching, listening, participating: embodiment (how we speak, eat, move, etc)
