Culture and cultural transmission
Microculture (what defines it)
Often used interchangeably with subculture, but specifically refers to a small, niche culture.
Cultural revitalism (definition)
ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make judgments using the standards of one's own culture.
cultural appropriation (examples)
borrowed accents, spirit animal, halloween, coachella, washington redskins, tribal tattoos, fashion industry
Cultural appropriation (vs. cultural exchange)
cultural exchange is where people share parts of culture with eachother
explicit culture
cultural knowledge that people can talk about, like words for things you will you will encounter.
Tacit culture
cultural knowledge that people lack words for. It is behavioral observation.
formal cultural transmission
deliberate and intentional (active teaching)
ethnocentrism (what does this often lead to)
enforced social change (colonialism), war, genocide.
Types of culture (2)
explicit culture, Tacit culture.
prestige bias
following those in places of respect (doing what people you look up to do)
success bias
following those who are really good at something. (buying jordans to be like jordan)
cultural transmission (types)
formal and informal
oblique cultural transmission
from adults that are, not the parent, institutions.
verticle cultural transmission
from parents to offspring
horizontal cultural transmission
from peers
what definess a culture
geographical region, ethnicity, race, hobbies
Subculture (what defines it)
has additional values, practices, and beliefs that are not shared by macroculture, but still conforms to aspects of macroculture.
what is culture
he learned and shared knowledge that people in society use to generate behavior and interpret experience.
Subculture (examples)
hippies, goths, new englanders, southerners, amish, LGBTQIA
Hulls speaking distances
intimate, personal, social, and public
Cultural appropriation (why is this bad)
involves power dynamic where a dominant culture takes elements from a culture that has been oppressed.
Big point of culture
it is learned not inherited
3 levels of culture
macroculture, subculture, microculture
conformist bias
many people following a trend.
Subculture (definition)
meso level of culture (largest and least specific)
macroculture (what are they)
national, ethnic, religous groups ...
why is cultural understanding crucial
necessary to belong
explicit culture examples
nodding your head yes in the US vs. albania, items, actions, emotional states.
ethnocentrism (is it avoidable)
not ecperiencing other cultures in life promotes ethnocentrism. May not be avoidable because culture controls most of our lives.
macroculture (the members...)
share traits but are broken down into smaller, distinct groups
macroculture (definition)
shared culture of a large group, consisting if values, symbols and ideas
Cultural revitalism (disadvantages)
some actions, like human rights issues, are inexcusable. (FGM, domestic abuse, child labor)
Microculture (examples)
sorority, girl scouts...
tacit culture examples
speaking distances, when to laugh cry etc...
cultural transmission biases (3)
success, prestige, conformist
Microculture (defintion)
system of cultural knowledge characteristic of small groups of people in an organization.
ethnocentrism (defintion)
the opinion that one's own way of life/ culture is natural or correct.
enculturation
the process by which culture is passed from one generation to the next.
informal cultural transmission
through observation or imitation
Cultural revitalism (goal)
to promote the view that no one culture is superior to other cultures.
levels/methods of cultural transmission
vertical, horizontal, oblique
Cultural appropriation (definition)
when somebody adopts aspects of a culture thats not their own inappropriately or without permission.
