ANTHRO 100 : Part 1 chapter by chapter review of Conformity and Conflict
Document Summary
Culture is the learned and shared knowledge that people use to generate behavior and interpret evidence. Explicit culture is cultural knowledge that people can talk about. Tacit culture us cultural knowledge that people lack words for. (ex. Ethnography is the process of discovering and describing a particular culture. It involves anthropologists in an intimate and personal activity as they attempt to learn how the members of a particular group see their words. Microcultures are systems of cultural knowledge characteristics of subgroups within larger societies. Members of a microculture will usually share much of what they know with everyone in the great society but will possess a special cultural knowledge that is unique to the subgroup. Detached observers work from the outside, creating a system of knowledge to account for other people"s behavior. Ethnographers: instead of looking for a subject to observe, ethnographers look for an informant to teach them the culture.
