the definitions of culture
- Murdock's list of 900 categories
-tyler's grocery list
leraned,socailly transmitted behavior
What is a particular culture ?
- A total share way of life
- includes way of thinking,acting and feeling
- language
- Concrete things : archaeology
Why study cultural anthropology ?
-R. Benedict : to understand history of cultural growth
To learn and use a foreign language effectively
Seely's six skills for intercultural commmunication
- Curiosity and empathy
-Role expectations and socail variables
-cultural conditioning and how people act
-Situational and social conventions
- Each society’s rule to satisfy needs
- Truth VS generalizations about different cultures
Coexistence of culture and society
-Most large societies : multicultural or pluralist
- Subcultures
- Equal importance of cultural similarities and difference
Universals among cultures
- Rewards and punishments in educational systems
- Withholding of certain information from young
- Education by controlling group to stay in power
Edward Sapir : the role of the individual to think , ,dream, and revolt