What is Culture?
- Using your dictionary, provide a definition for each of the following words:
- Culture: An art of man’s intellectual achievement as regarded collectivelly.
- Custom: A habitual practice whereby you act in given circumstances.
- Ideology: A system of ideals and deals, mostly the ideas that form root on political and economic theory.
- We belong to a variety of cultures (American, Modestan, college,ethnic,religious, peer,etc). Please make a list of all cultures (or sub-cultures) to which you belong.
- An American.
- A Christian.
- Am a Student.
- Within each of these cultures, you play a certain roles(you are a student in college culture for example, you may be a mother, boss, a friend, romantic interest ,citizen, etc). Please list all of the hats you wear in your day to day life.
- A citizen in my country, America.
- A student in college.
- A first born in our family.
- A worshipper in our church.(unique_solution)
- Consider the list you’ve made in number three above. Please circle the three most dominant roles that you play. Select those three which you believe most color your world view and affect your behavior on a day to day basis
- Being a student.
- Being First born.
- Being a patriotic citizen.
- Now consider the three primary roles you have selected. Rewrite those roles on the spaces below and then list the traits that are required by the role. If you’ve listed “student” for example, curiosity, a good work ethic and punctuality).
- Role #1 a student :
- Self disciplined
- Punctual
- Persistence
- Commitment to learning
- Role #2 A First born
- Responsible
- Peacemaker
- Reliable and conscious
- Role #3 A citizen
- Next, please consider the lists you’ve made in number five. How were the necessary characteristics of the sub-cultural roles you’ve chosen transmitted to you? Did you learn through trial and error, by watching your friends, from friends from your parents, from television? Who are our cultural models for these roles? How do you Know-who tells you-how to behave?
A.Role#1
As a student I learnt good traits including self-discipline, persistence and being punctual through motivational speakers and tuition teachers by providing encouraging content.
B.Role#2
As a citizen in my country I have learnt to become honest, compassionate and responsible through reading books and also by gaining knowledge through my peers.
- Role #3
As a First born in our family, I have been raised by parents, taught to be responsible and act as a peacemaker to my siblings.
Discovery
In the groundwork section, you explored the sub-cultures to which you belong and the roles you play in each of those cultures. You also selected those roles which most affect your daily behavior and considered how you have been educated to play best those roles. Below, please discuss the cultural obligations you live up to and the manner which you have been prepared to execute the functions essential to these obligations. Have you voluntarily accepted all of your roles? Have any been foisted on you? Are you well-prepared for all of your responsibilities? Do you have realistic or unrealistic models to emulate or expectations to live up to? And how is your “role playing “going Are you getting rave reviews.
Basically, as a student I lead up self disciplined, persistent and committed life toward education in order to lead a better life and have a successful future. My inspiration is driven by the motivation given in school. I live up to achieving my dreams of leading a better future. So far my peers, teachers and any person who knows me I haven’t had any complain or any bad review either.
Fieldwork.
- Using your dictionary, please define the following words:
- Perpetuate; Make unfounded belief or something continue indefinitely.
- Pervasive: It’s normally a physical effect or unwelcomed effect that spreads through a group of people.
- Subvert: Undermine the authority and those in power.
- Marginalize: Treat a group, person or an idea as peripheral or insignificant.
- Please also tell me about
Dominant culture: Is a culture that is widely spread, most powerful or the most influential within a political or a social entity in where various cultures are present.
Minority culture: Is a culture that is either racially or ethnically distinct group that exists as a subordinate to a dominant group in the society.
Excavation
Please answer the following questions:
- Following Greenblatt’s basic idea that the collective beliefs of a culture, when forced on the individual, create a ”technology of control,” define each of the following in your own words:
- Culture: is the art, customs, social institutions and several achievements of particular social group, people or nation.
- Cultural institutions: is an organization within a culture that serves as a preservation of culture.
- Convention:
- What are mediums through which culture perpetuates itself?
By socializing agent’s awareness, relative location and intention to reproduce cultural and social norms
- What is the difference between “coercion” and “socialization?”
Coercion is the act of convincing someone to do something by using threats or force while socialization is the process of learning to act in a way that is acceptable to the community.
- Why is culture usually “invisible?”
The social and cultural group’s outlines are very difficult to identify