ANTHRO 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Emic And Etic
17 Nov 2016
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Culture: how people live their lives; experiences you"ve had that have led up for you to become the person you are now; similarities in people; the food you eat. Culture is learned; we are enculturated in relation to the beliefs, practices, and norms, that we encounter through social and symbolic learning. Stove is hot; you learn it is hot by touching it. Watch someone burn themselves and know it is hot (not experiencing it yourself)/symbolic learning. We can"t be people unless there is symbolic learning; we need social norms and symbols. Gender: humans/babies are treated differently b/c of their gender. Girls: sexualized from a young age wow she is so beautiful . Boys: treated more roughly and not commented on appearance/ explore your future . Classic culture: set of beliefs, values, or patterns of behavior that a group of people or population has. Locates origins of beliefs, social conditions, and so on to bounded cultural groups.
