Culture essentials

A system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions created, learned, and shared by a group of people.

At school, we learn English as a second language because during the Cold War, the US had a lot of influence over the cultural output of the world, manifested in music, movies and literature, which remains today. The cultural predominance of a country over others is called soft...

Choose the odd-one-out

• Stratification

• Hegemony

• Homogenization

• Agency

Which of the following are NOT cultural institutions?

• Family and school

• Media and the government

• Religious organizations

• Hospitals and banks

• They're all cultural institutions

Which of the following are NOT symbols?

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• tree

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• All of them are symbols

The process by which individuals learn the culture of their society through family, peers, institutions, and media.

Fundamental beliefs about what is important, true, and desirable within a culture.

• Norms

• Values

Cultural classifications of what kinds of people and things exist, and what their meanings and roles are.

The debate over whether human behavior and identity are shaped primarily by biology or by culture and learning

• Nature vs. Nurture

• Characteristic of culture: it influences biological processes

• Ethnocentrism

What's the definition of Cultural Relativism?

• A global outlook that emerges from exposure to diverse cultural ideas, values, and practices, often transcending local identities
  

• The ways humans adjust (biologically or culturally) to survive and thrive in their environment

• The principle that one should understand another culture on its own terms, rather than judging it by one’s own standards.