RLS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: The Jack Pine, Ralph Linton, Pierre Trudeau

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: RLS100
• Professor: Elizabeth Halpenny

Document Summary

Leisure and culture: leisure and culture mutually shape each other, how leisure and human societies are reciprocal forces, anthropology is a study of human society that incorporates ideas from the social and biological sciences and the humanities. Can be distinguished by age, lifestyle, ethnicity, or even leisure interests. E. g. surfers, climbers, trekkers, aboriginal hip hoppers: 4 characteristics of culture. Shared values and standards of behavior are held in common. In canada, peace, order, & good government vs. u. s. Comment heard after canada won gold in both men"s and women"s olympic hockey: Learned cultural values and standards of behavior are transmitted. Somewhere along our lives we need to learn what our cultural values are by living in them. Ralph linton refers to this as our social heredity. Enculturation a form of cultural transmission by which a society transmits its culture and behavior to its members by surrounding developing members with appropriate models (berry et al. , 2011, p. 469)- midterm.