What is culture

Page
1

Slide 1

What is culture?

Standard 10.1

The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning "to cultivate“.

Culture refers to the universal human capacity to classify, and communicate their experiences symbolically.

Slide 2

What is culture? Standard 10.1

Culture - has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behaviors and systems of belief.

Slide 3

What is culture? Standard 10.1

A common way of understanding culture is to see it as consisting of four elements that are "passed on from generation to generation by learning alone":

values

norms

institutions

Artifacts.

Slide 4

What is culture? Standard 10.1

Values comprise ideas about what in life seems important.

(Fast write) What are the Values in the United States and why?

Slide 5

What is culture? Standard 10.1

Norms consist of expectations of how people will behave in various situations.

(Fast write) What are the norms in the United states?

Slide 6

What is culture? Standard 10.1

Institutions are the structures of a society within which values and norms are transmitted.

Fast write) What institution do you go to daily and show values and social norms?

Slide 7

What is culture? Standard 10.1

Artifacts—things, or aspects of material culture derive from a culture's values and norms.

Fast write) What artifact in your life describes you?

Slide 8

What is culture? Standard 10.1

Subcultures,

Melting Pot:

Multiculturalism: