6 characteristics of culture

Culture is...

"The learned, symbolic, at least partially adaptive, and ever-changing patterns of behavior and meaning shared by members of a group."

3) patterned and integrated

A change in one aspect of culture can affect others. Functionalism

1) Culture is learned

Enculturation-process of learning how to be a member of society. Culture and personality theory

4) culture is shared

Historical Particularism, Culture and personality theory, structuralism, Interpretive anthropology, symbolic anthropology and postmodernism.

5) adaptive and sometimes maladaptive

Include info about how to survive. Are also maladaptive. Neo-evolutionism, cultural ecology, cultural materialism

6) constantly changing

Influenced by internal and external pressures. Feminist theory, globalization, political economy

2) uses symbols

Symbolic anthropology Interpretive Anthropology

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culture is adaptive and sometimes maladaptive

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culture is constantly changing

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culture is learned

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culture is patterned and integrated

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culture is shared

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culture uses symbols