The Culture And Concept Of Culture

Attribute theory is a theory of culture that arose in the late nineteenth century that describes culture “as a set of stable and knowable attributes” (Yon, 2000a, 8). This view of culture suggests that culture is a “complex whole” of these particular attributes: “beliefs, morals, customs, capabilities, and habits that people acquire as members of society (Yon, 2000a, 8). Overall, attribute theory depicts culture as “coherent and predictable” and this means that there are noticeable “patterns of culture” (Yon, 2000a, 8). In contrast, Yon suggests that culture does not fit this ideal view of predictability and culture “is not only a product or a set of attributes that can be claimed and neatly recorded” (Yon, 2000a, 5). Instead, Yon coined

Over the years the concept of culture has shaped people and what they believe in. According to the textbook culture is defined as a set of beliefs, traditions, and practices. The conception of culture can be described as material or nonmaterial. Material culture is described as everything that is a part of our constructed, physical environment. On the other hand, nonmaterial culture refers to values, beliefs, behaviors, and social normal. I believe culture can be defined and shaped in many ways. I feel that culture differs from one location to another because the natural environment has an impact on the culture. Also, some people come up with their own ideas and values. There are changes within cultures across time because people grow and develop

The identities that each person possesses is influenced according to their attitudes, values and beliefs embedded in their culture. When people hear the word cult, the images of satan worshipping, animal sacrifices and evil, pagan rituals automatically come to mind. However, in reality, the majority of cults do not involve these things and are in fact simply a religious system with alternate beliefs. The word though refers to an unorthodox sect whose members distort the original doctrines of the religion. Heaven’s Gate is a cult that is centred in California, founded by Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles in 1993. They are a UFO based ‘destructive doomsday’ cult who believed that evil space aliens called ‘Luciferians’ had kept

In the article “Fluid and Shifting: Racialized, Gendered, and Sexual Identity in African American Children” by Denise Isom. Isom talks about how the researchers were studying African American Children, and racialized gender identity. There were several ways that the research was conducted they include: questionnaires, one-on-one interviews, and observation ethnography. The study was conducted from 2001-2002, in a “lower/ working class African American community near a large mid-western city” (Isom, 2012). The participants were children enrolled in a community based after-school program. To gain insight on early conceptions of one’s self and others as far as gender and race (focusing on how they intersect), children from grades five, six,

Despite the long research, observation, and debate, there are many word concepts that do not have a standard definition. This may lead us to believe that a word may have multiple meanings and interpretations. Each of these meanings can be used in different aspects and purposes. As a result, many people believe that the concept of a word may be described, but the definition cannot be fully defined. In the nursing career, for example, there are many words that have been using, but these words have different meanings in other usages outside of nursing. The words stroke, heart, culture, power, and or sensitivity has a meaning in the medicine while they can be interpreted differently in other fields like sociology, in anthropology, and in religion

Conrad Kottak's Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity (12th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008), having gone through 12 editions since its first publication in 1974, deserves its reputation as a widely-used comprehensive introduction for undergraduates to the field of anthropology. As with other recently published textbooks, it is a multifaceted, colorful production that includes an 'ebook' version, a CD-ROM, and supplementary Website material. With this extensive array of material it applies the latest pedagogical techniques to systematically introduce the student to the issues that are critical to the field.

Rossi stressed that the urban is artifacts, which is a kind of artificial environment made by human. The key issue, therefore, is to emphasize its artificial character, which must establish a basic concept of human culture in urban culture. The city is not only an isolated artifact, he is a collective artifact. The collective nature of the city brings it into the cultural zone. He believes that the city reflects the development of human rationality. Therefore, the base point of Rossi 's thought is to look at the city from the view of architecture or by means of construction. That is, the mutual penetration of cities and buildings. Buildings involve the human spirit when constructing. ” Thus, the concept that one person has of an urban artifact will always differ from that of someone who ‘lives’ that same artifact. These considerations, however, can delimit our task; it is possible that our task consists principally in defining an urban artifact from the standpoint of its manufacture: in other works, to define and classify a street, a city, a street in a city; then the location of this street, its function, its architecture; then the street systems possible in the city and many other things.” Artifacts are not limited to objective products, but also related to the city, such as history, geography, structure and other relevant facts. In short, architecture has the meaning beyond the objective materials, but unifies the spirit of collective. The collective nature of this

“Our view of the world is dramatically influenced by the society in which we were raised.” In a sociological vision the word culture isn’t just the was mannerisms its also the objects and ideas with in the society. What you do and use to do so is what ‘label’ you to which group, society, you belong to. Those actions are your culture. As defined by book, culture is the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior. It includes the ideas, values, and artifacts of group of people. At times people within these societies have difficulty understanding the norms of other societies. In this case these people are ethnocentric. Ethnocentrism is the tendency to assume that one’s own culture and way of life or the better of all. This term was ‘coined’ the term for these people by William Graham Sumner in 1906. Ethnocentric people are different from those who are able to view other societies, and cultures as something normal for them. The way people view different societies from the perspective of their own is called cultural relativism; it is what allows us to understand other cultures before ‘labeling them as abnormal. It stresses the differences between the norms and values of the society.

In the realm of Christianity there are several denominations where their doctrinal beliefs and traditions are followed religiously. Through the story of the “Traditions of the Elders” in Mark 7, this paper focuses on the origin of culture and the false perception it gives that is was created by God. Although culture religious traditions can have association with God, culture and religious traditions are not are not from God and can prevent people from doing what God wants

Culture has been defined as the knowledge, values, attitudes, and traditions that guide the behavior of a group of people and allow them to solve the problems of living in their environment. Beyond this standard definition, I believe that culture is a conglomeration of the things we adopt from our families, friends, peers, and other members of our community. As Reyes stated in her article “Whose culture is it anyway,” culture extends to all individuals, including those considered “of the norm” within their communities. Growing up in the rural small town of Red Wing, Minnesota, I was indeed considered “of the norm.” Red Wing’s community consists primarily of descendants of Northern European Christians (Caucasians). When my parents moved to Red Wing, they were welcome by the community and easily adapted, in part, due to their white skin and European heritage. In addition, finding a Scandinavian Lutheran Church, United Lutheran E.L.C.A. Church made them feel like Red Wing was home. The only determinants that separated my family from the majority of the Red Wing residents was our elevated socioeconomic status and the fact that no other relatives live in Red Wing. My mother is a chemistry professor at Southeast Technical College, while my father is one of the few pediatricians in town. As a small rural community, the majority of residents work primarily in blue-collar jobs, including factory jobs at the renowned Red Wing Shoes®, Capital Safety, Tannery, or BIC plants.

Although a strong majority of U.S. adults believe in a god, this trend has dropped over the years in a short period of time. According to Wikipedia, “The majority of Americans identify themselves as Christians, while close to a quarter claim no religious affiliation.” Although many U.S. adults still believe in God, I think it is very sad that the number of believers has dropped over a short period of time. Being a believer of God is very important to my cultural beliefs. My family and I are strong believers to the Christian religion. Every Saturday evening my family and I attend church. Not only is church important to the adults in my family, but it is also important to the children as well. Children are an important

Culture can be defined in many ways due to the fact that everyone can have their own distinct and traditional beliefs and values. “ Culture is fluid, it is not a static entity which one takes out of the box on occasion. It is with us daily” (Cultural Handout). Someone’s culture is set as the characteristics of the group practices in language, religion, types of food, social traits and habits, and the distinct arts and music. There are a variety of different cultures for example, Western Culture, Eastern Culture, Latin Culture, Middle Eastern Culture, and African Culture. All of these different cultures have their own ideas, values, and individualism, laws that are implied, civil rights, and even technology. In our, “ Culture Handout” culture is defined as the tool of the mind, “ it is an individual’s way seeing and interacting within the world. It encompasses one’s values systems, beliefs, and perceptions of the world around them. Race, socio-economic class gender, sexual orientation, ability, geographic location, age, religion language, etc. all impact the formation of culture, but these various context are not culture” (Cultural Handout).

Starting from the etymology of the word, the term culture derives from the latin word colère, that means to farm the land, and only after, this meaning was extended to the term cultus, that stands for a literate man, and there is a connection between these meanings, because, talking in a metaphorical way, a literate cultivate his spirit and his formation process as an individual, like as what Cicero writes in the “Disputationes Tusculanae” Cicero(45 a.c), which is that that the sense of the word culture is a synonymous of growth and an interior refinement. Subsequently in the middle age, during the discover of the New World, there was an increasing interest on the new shapes and the different demonstrations of culture of the indigenous population that were being taken from the notes of the travel diaries. This new interest brought to a new phenomena called cultural relativism, which is the recognition that every culture has his own validity and coherence and that every one has not to be judged by prejudices. We have the real turning point at the end of the 1800s, where there is change on the conception of the culture, from a classic humanistic, to a social anthropologic one. This period of time is really important because

Merriam-Webster states “culture is defined: as the beliefs, customs, and arts, of a particular society, group, place, or time.” People think of culture as they think of a particular person(s) or a region but with a little studying of the culture, they would understand what it is.

Kroeber and Kluckhohn (1962) identify over 150 scientific definitions of the concept of culture. Indeed, many authors have tried to define culture and this is why there are so many definitions and that a unique one is hard to find. First of all, Kroeber and Kluckholn (1952) assume that culture is a suite of patterns, implicit and explicit, “of and for behaviour acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiments in artefacts” (p.47). Later, Hofstede adds that culture is “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another” (Hofstede, 1991, p.51). This definition is the most widely accepted one amongst practitioners. For Winthrop (1991), culture is the distinctive models of thoughts, actions and values that composed members of a society or a social group. In other words,