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What is Culture?
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Professor Alana L. Jolley
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What is Culture?
It is the whole set of ideas that we learn and share with others
in our everyday life.
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What is Culture?
Culture is all the learned values, rules and perceptions, which informs
us what is appropriate behavior.
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What is Culture?
• We are symbolic creatures; and culture is symbolic.
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Culture is Dynamic
• Culture can change when necessary.
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Why do we need culture?
• Culture helps us to make sense of our world.
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Why Do We Need Culture?
• Culture provides us a way to survive, and thrive, as soon as we arrive.
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Are Some Cultures Better?
No culture is better than another. Culture functions as an integrated whole. Everyone lives their culture, in their own way, in their
own particular society.
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Culture is Integrative
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How do we “get” culture?
• We learn it at home, school, or church; from our siblings, our playmates, our
peers, and from many others.• Culture is not genetically inherited.
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We “get” culturethrough Enculturation
Culture is passed down to us from one generation to another.
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Characteristics Of Culture
• Culture is learned.• Culture is shared.• Culture is symbolic.• Culture is integrative.• Culture is dynamic.• Culture is passed on from generation
to generation – enculturation.
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