ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Evolutionary Psychology, Consumerism, Cosmopolitanism
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Chapter 2 - the meaning of progress and development. Culture is a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, and shared by a group of people - c. guest, 2013. Culture is learned and it is taught. Norms - ideas or rules about how people should behave in particular situations or toward certain other people (a mainstream culture) Values - fundamental beliefs about what is true, important, or beautiful, and what makes life good. Symbols - anything that signifies something else. Mental maps of reality - cultural classifications of what kinds of people and things exist, and assignment of meaning to those classifications. Ethnocentrism, central relativism, and human rights (bottom line respect other cultures because we all have to overcome the same basic challenges) A categorization of people from caveman/savagery to refined/top of the line cultures - this was debunked because it was very ethnocentric and racist.
