ANTH 130 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Enculturation, Social Group, Jargon
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Everyone belongs to more than one culture; best friends have their own culture, families, neighborhoods, churches, clubs, groups, societies, states, countries, continents, global in some respects. The culture of somebody is an abstraction, not everyone is identical in what they know within that culture. Enculturation- how we learn culture: modeling after others, informally told how to behave by peers, direct instruction from parents, observation. Filters experience- it delimits experience, focuses on some things and not others, bound by the expected norms, culture identifies for us what reality is/ it shapes how we see the world. Dynamic- a culture is always changing by diffusions or acculturation ( two or more cultures being in direct prolonged contact with one another), not everything changes at the same rate. Interrelated system- through systems of knowledge, changing one aspect of a culture will have some affects on other aspects.
